Sadr militia evicted from building

Iraq authorities have forcibly removed members of a hardline Shiite militia from a building they were illegally occupying in Najaf, the US military said today.

Members of the militia linked to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were given a deadline by the governor of Diwaniyah province to vacate the building in this holy city about 100 miles (160 kilometres) from Baghdad.