Iraq: Day Five of Operation “Charge of the Knights”

Day Five of Operation...
“Charge of the Knights”
Saturday, March 29, 2008

The Herald Sun website gets us started with today’s Iraq updates... Iraqi Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered his followers not to lay down their weapons, defying a five-day-old crackdown by Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki, who has ordered them to disarm... Sadr's remarks left even less room for negotiations to end a standoff that has seen violence spread from the southern city of Basra through towns in Iraq's southern Shi'ite heartland and neighborhoods of Baghdad... "Moqtada al-Sadr asks his followers not to deliver weapons to the government. Weapons should be turned over only to a government which can expel the (US) occupiers," Sadr aide Hassan Zargani said...
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Don't disarm, cleric tells followers

* IHT.com...
Iraqi soldiers uncovered a cache of Iranian-made rockets and armor-piercing roadside bombs Saturday in an apartment building occupied by Shiite militia members south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said...The cache was found in one apartment and contained 17 bombs known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, three Iranian-made 107 mm rockets and an assortment of rifles and Iraqi security force uniforms...
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Iraqi troops find cache of Iranian-made rockets, other weapons south of Baghdad

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