Delegates come together to choose candidates that will form a delegation to meet Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf to ask him to stop fighting and join the political process instead during Iraq's National Conference Monday Aug. 16, 2004. National Conference delegates called Monday for radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to abandon his uprising against U.S. and Iraqi troops and pull his fighters out of a holy shrine in Najaf. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Conference delegates call on militants to withdraw from Najaf shrine

• By ncs-import
• August 15, 2004