Rebel cleric's gunment surrender their weapons

Followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr trickled in to police stations in a Baghdad slum district to hand in weapons today under a deal seen as a key step toward ending weeks of fighting with US and Iraqi forces in the Shiite militant stronghold.

Rebel cleric's gunment surrender their weapons

Followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr trickled in to police stations in a Baghdad slum district to hand in weapons today under a deal seen as a key step toward ending weeks of fighting with US and Iraqi forces in the Shiite militant stronghold.

Checkpoints lined the road to al-Nasr police station in Sadr City, and Iraqi National Guards took up positions on the surrounding rooftops.

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