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By Denis 1). Gray
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NAJAF, Iraq — U.S. soldiers
seized the governor’s office
Thursday in the holy city of
Najaf, wresting control from
Shiite militiamen loyal to a rad
ical cleric in battles that left an
estimated 40 insurgents dead.
In Baghdad, a suicide car
bomber killed five Iraqi civilians
and an American soldier at the
edge of the heavily guarded
Green Zone that houses the U.S.
headquarters. The blast wound
ed 25 people, including two
U.S. soldiers.
Amid concerns that U.S.
troops were about to move
directly against anti-American
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, his mili
tiamen dug in in Najaf, taking
positions behind earthen
mounds leading into the city,
center and firing a barrage of
mortar shells and small arms fire
at the U.S. base late Thursday.
American soldiers responded
with 120mm mortar fire.
Gunmen took cover behind
buildings as American helicop
ters flew overhead. An increased
number of fighters were seen in
the city center.
“We will fight until the last
drop of our blood,” said Dhia
Slmni, as he stood behind a dirt
barricade.
"We expect the Americans to
ittreat," said fellow militiaman
\lalek Holeicha. “We are fight
ing for our faith. They don't
have any faith.”
At the city’s Imam Ali shrine,
me of the holiest sites in Shiite
Islam, a coffin wrapped in an
Iraqi flag was brought in —
ipparently one of the dead from
ie fighting.
"This is a martyr for
Muqtada,” mourners chanted.
The Najaf fighting came as
chief U.S. administrator L. Paul
Bremer announced the appoint-
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AP
ment of Adnan al-Zurufi as gov
ernor of Najaf province, a step
that is part of the campaign to
regain control of the area from al-
Sadr's militiamen. His al-Mahdi
Army seized government build
ings and police stations through
out the province on April 4.
The United States is planning
to hand some sovereignty to a
transitional Iraqi government
June 30 and is looking to end al-
Sadr's uprising, which has left
parts of southern Iraqi outside of
coalition control.
U.S. troops have been step
ping up their assaults on al-
Sadr's followers, raiding offices
and buildings where weapons are
stored in several southern cities
in increasingly bloody skirmish
es. Moderate Shiite leaders have
called on al-Sadr's militiamen to
abandon Najaf, isolating the cler
ic and making it easier for U.S.
forces to act against him.
On Thursday, U.S. forces
moved to outlying areas of
Najaf, drawing militants from
the city center and enabling
other troops to seize the two-
story governor’s office without
resistance.
An estimated 40 militiamen
were killed in gunbattles outside
the city, said Capt. Roger
Maynulet, a tank company com
mander with the Army’s 2nd
Armored Cavalry Regiment.
After the soldiers took the
building, heavy gunfire was
heard near the governor’s office
and smoke was seen rising.
Gunmen fired from rooftops as
motorists tied through deserted
streets, honking their horns.
One U.S. convoy of
Humvees leaving the area was
ambushed twice in 10 minutes
by insurgents firing rocket-pro
pelled grenades and automatic
rifles from rooftops. An AP
reporter who witnessed the
attacks saw five militants who
appear to have been killed in
retaliatory fire.
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