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The Najaf crisis drags on as we go to press.(Brief Article)

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* The Najaf crisis drags on as we go to press. The constantly shifting pronouncements--one hour, rebel punk-cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is going to be definitively smashed; the next, he is going to be given one more last chance--are mind-numbingly incoherent. But this is war and negotiation, Arab-style. Since an Arab government--Prime Minister Allawi's--is calling the shots, it is what should be expected for the duration. Since al-Sadr represents the first real challenge to the central government's ...

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