[ppi] [ppiindia] US mengepung Najaf telah melanggar gencatan senjata/Irak juga.

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  US mengepung seputar kota Najaf, dapat dikatakan akan berperang 
melawan para pejuang Irak. Mengapa ke dua pihak sama sama menarik 
diri dan berdamai?

  US bakal dapat mengabisi para pejuang Irak dan Para pejuang Irak 
juga selalu membalas dendam. Semoga ada pihak dapat menghentikan 
perang pertumpahdarahan dengan memaksa US dan Irak dalam meja 
penyelesaian konflik. 

Semoga US tidak terlalu gegabah dan penuh nafsu membunuh umat umat 
idak perlu. Karena kemarahan merupakan faktor pembalasdendaman dan 
saling membunuh. Bukan dapat mengartikan pemberontakan pada para 
pejuang Irak, bagaimana kesamaan pemberontakan sejajar dgn pasukan US 
akibat kemarahan US tidak perlu?

sudah cukup pertumpahdarahan.

wassalam,

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U.S. Threatens Falluja, Najaf After New Battles

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Iraq (news - web sites) 
threw down a gauntlet to fighters from both main Muslim communities 
on Monday, threatening imminent assaults on two key towns if 
guerrillas do not accede to their demands. 

U.S. forces encircle both Najaf, the holiest Iraqi city for the 
Shi'ite majority, and Falluja, where Sunni insurgents fought a bloody 
new round in a three-week battle with U.S. Marines. Eight guerrillas 
and a soldier died and a mosque was damaged. 

Loud explosions between Najaf and Kufa, 6 miles northeast, echoed 
through the holy city on Monday night after clashes between 
militiamen loyal to rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and U.S. 
troops in the area, witness said. 

With the clock ticking down to a formal handover of power to Iraqis 
on June 30, the U.S.-led occupation authority is racing to extinguish 
two serious challenges to its military control -- while avoiding 
inflaming Iraqi public opinion. 

U.S. officials in Washington said President Bush (news - web sites) 
had asked commanders at Falluja to keep up negotiations. But they may 
start probing patrols into the city of 300,000 as early as Tuesday, 
risking serious confrontations. 

Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Baghdad who called the 
situation in Najaf "explosive," issued an ultimatum to Sadr to 
withdraw his Mehdi Army militia and its weapons from mosques and 
schools immediately. 

Late on Monday, U.S. forces clashed with Sadr's militiamen outside 
Najaf, south of Baghdad, leaving several Iraqi vehicles burning, 
witnesses said. There were no reports on casualties. 

"The Coalition certainly will not tolerate this situation. The 
restoration of these holy places to calm places of worship must begin 
immediately," Bremer said in his written statement. 

His spokesman, Dan Senor, said a Geneva Convention bar on attacks on 
such sites would not apply if they were used for military purposes. 
He declined to say precisely how U.S. forces would respond if Sadr, 
who is wanted for murder, did not comply with the demand to clear 
weapons and militiamen from mosques. 

The cleric's popularity is not universal, but any military action in 
Najaf would inflame Shi'ites in Iraq, where the long-oppressed 
majority largely welcomed the toppling of Saddam Hussein (news - web 
sites), as well as elsewhere in the Middle East, notably in Shi'ite-
ruled Iran. 

TUESDAY DEADLINE 

In Sunni Falluja, long loyal to Saddam, U.S. forces have also been 
largely holding back since launching a crackdown three weeks after 
the murder and mutilation of four American security guards. Local 
doctors say 600 people were killed. That has angered many fellow 
Arabs. 

But U.S. patrols, alongside Iraqi forces, would begin in Falluja "as 
early as tomorrow," Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, a military 
spokesman for the authority, told a news conference. 

Guerrillas, who may number up to 2,000 and include 200 or more 
foreign militants, have until Tuesday to hand in heavy weapons. After 
two weeks of a much abused cease-fire and Monday's fighting, which 
involved guerrilla rocket attacks and U.S. air strikes, there seems 
only a slim chance of that. 

"We certainly hope that there is an epiphany on the part of the 
belligerents in Falluja tonight to recognize there are two tracks," 
Kimmitt said. "There is...a peaceful settlement or there is a 
settlement achieved by force of arms. Their choice." 

He said, however, the moment for action would be up to the U.S. 
commander on the ground and training and other preparation among the 
Americans and Iraqis charged with retaking the dangerous streets of 
Falluja might take some time yet. 

CHEMICAL BLAST 

U.S. officials say some of those fighting in the city seem to have 
links with Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al Qaeda group. 

Among such militants said by Washington to be operating in Iraq is 
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He claimed responsibility for Saturday's 
suicide boat attack on an offshore oil export terminal near Basra. 

In Baghdad, two U.S. soldiers were killed when a chemical store blew 
up during a raid that it appeared may have involved specialists 
engaged in the hunt for Saddam's elusive chemical and biological 
weapons. Kimmitt said the troops were acting on a tip that chemicals 
were being sold to militants. 

The death toll for this month alone among U.S. troops stands at well 
over 100, accounting for more than one in five of all combat deaths 
since the invasion last March -- a fact putting pressure on Bush as 
he fights for re-election in November. 

Washington is also struggling to keep its coalition together as the 
violence gets bloodier. Spain is already pulling out its troops, 
leaving a hole around Najaf that Kimmitt said U.S. troops may have to 
fill themselves, at least for the time being. 

Foreign civilians have also been targeted, with several taken hostage 
this month. One group released a videotape showing three Italians and 
saying they would be killed in five days if Italians did not protest 
at Rome's military venture in Iraq. (Additional reporting by Michael 
Winfrey in Sofia, Kate Kelland in London, Akram Saleh in Falluja, 
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Mussab Al-Khairalla in Baghdad and Gleb 
Bryanski in Najaf) 




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