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Al-Sadr, who is reportedly holed up in his office in Najaf, attempted to rally Iraqis including Sunnis behind him. ''This ordeal has shown that all the Iraqi people are united,'' he said in a statement issued by his office. [Here's the US military LIE - ] Al-Sadr's force remains unpopular with most Shiites because it is too radical. And so far, there has been little sign of a widespread support for the movement or a surge to join the fight against the Americans....

THOUSANDS of Sunni and Shiite Muslims forced their way through US military checkpoints Thursday to ferry food and medical supplies to the besieged Sunni bastion of Fallujah where US marines are trying to crush insurgents....

CBS/AP) U.S. Marines battled insurgents for control of the Sunni Muslim stronghold in Fallujah Wednesday, calling in airstrikes against a mosque compound where witnesses said dozens were killed in six hours of fighting. An anti-U.S. uprising led by a radical Shiite cleric raged for the fourth day in southern cities....

Doctors in Falluja want the siege on the town lifted for shifting patients with serious injuries even as brutal street battles rage....

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Eight South Koreans and three Japanese were kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq, and captors armed with automatic rifles and swords threatened today to burn the Japanese alive if Tokyo did not withdraw from the U.S.-led coalition....

From correspondents in Baghdad April 8, 2004 MANY of Baghdad's Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims overnight rallied behind embattled firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr whose banned militia is facing a nationwide assault by US-led coalition forces....

Shiites, Sunnis join forces against U.S. troops...

A report commissioned by the Pentagon on the invasion of Afghanistan was turned away after it concluded there was a wide gap between how the White House represented the war and what was actually taking place. We speak with the New Yorker's Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh who says, "It's a great trifecta for this administration. In three-and-a-half years of office, we have destroyed Afghanistan, destroyed Iraq and we are in the process of destroying the UN too."...

Polish troops have killed the chief of Iraqi militants Murtada al-Mussawi, who runs the office of Moqtada al-Sadr in Karbala....

WASHINGTON, April 5 (UPI) -- Following a bloody Palm Sunday weekend in Iraq that left scores killed, including nine American soldiers, the country finds itself in its most politically precarious situation since the fall of Baghdad a year ago this Friday. When U.S. troops supported by battle tanks toppled Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad's Firdous Square last April 9, heralding the end of the Baath regime's dictatorship, the Pentagon planners of the Iraq war believed the worst was over. B...