Fighters loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr aim their Kalashnikovs during clashes with U.S. forces and Iraqi National guards in the holy Muslim city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq Saturday Aug. 7, 2004. Sporadic explosions and gunfire echoed through the holy Shiite city of Najaf on Saturday after two days of intense clashes between U.S. forces and Shiite Muslim insurgents that marked some of the bloodiest fighting in Iraq in months. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Sporadic explosions, gunfire in Najaf after two days of bloody clashes

• By ncs-import
• August 6, 2004