Iraq: August 24, 2004

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  The government says they will send Iraqi troops and police into the Imam Ali shrine today, whether  Muqtada al Sadr's followers are still there or not. Overnight, American and Iraqi troops continued to fight it out with Sadr's gunmen. Sistani underwent a long planned heart operation to clear a blocked artery.

 

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