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Bombs Rock Najaf

Kelly Hayes - | Story: 3537
  • A series of large explosions shook Najaf on Thursday, hours after Iraq's interim prime minister urged Shia militants to end a violent standoff in the holy city. The first aerial bomb arrives in Najaf during a U.S. assault. It's not known what caused the explosions, and U.S. officials have not confirmed whether their warplanes were involved. Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army are holed up in the city's revered Imam Ali mosque, where they've held off Iraqi and U.S. forces for two weeks. It's believed al-Sadr may also be in the mosque.
  • Calling for justice to be done in the "cold-blooded murder" of 22 people, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan led an emotional tribute on Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of a bomb blast at the UN's Baghdad headquarters.
  • Israel is facing a period of political instability and possibly new elections, after the governing Likud party voted to forbid Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from forming a coalition with the opposition Labour party in order to regain a working parliamentary majority.
  • An Oklahoma City bombing conspirator has decided not to appeal his convictions in the killings of 160 people who died when a U.S. federal office building was destroyed in 1995. Terry Nichols, 49, does not want to cause more pain for victims' families by stretching out the legal process, his lawyer said on Thursday.
  • At least nine people died when violent storms blew through France this week, officials confirmed on Thursday. All the dead were swimmers swept away in overflowing rivers or dragged under by waves in the Mediterranean Ocean.

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