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[snip] "What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands?" al-Sadr asked in the statement, which was read at the protest by his aide, Salah al-Obeidi. "What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?" "No, no America! No, no America!" the crowd shouted in reply. [snip]

<p>BAGHDAD - A day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaced to end nearly four months in hiding and demand U.S. troops leave Iraq, American forces raided his Sadr City stronghold and killed five suspected militia fighters in air strikes Saturday.</p>

Combat with Najaf, the US army asks the Iraqis to evacuate the zone The American army invited Tuesday civil Iraqi to evacuate without delaying the zone of the combat with Najaf and summoned the militiamans Shiites to leave the city where confrontations always made rage for the sixth consecutive day, according to a correspondent of the AFP. American humvees circulated at the end of the morning in the city to require by loud-hailers of the population to evacuate without delay the zone of the engagements between the militiamans of the radical head Shiite Moqtada Sadr and the Iraqi police...