A news black out on Najaf?

[Disturbed]

I have been searching the Net and cannot find any news about Najaf.

[shraby]

1. They ran all the journalists out

of Najaf a day or so ago.

[BeHereNow]

2. NO Doubt-

Telling the journalists to leave and all-
If anyone will ride it out, it will be Robert Fisk.
Perhaps the Independent will be in contact with him.
BHN

[BeHereNow]

3. dupe post- deleting

BHN

[indie_voter]

4. U.S. Tanks Roll Closer to Najaf Shrine

NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. tanks on Monday edged to within 500 yards of the Imam Ali shrine, Iraq (news - web sites)'s holiest Shiite site, as explosions shook an adjacent cemetery that has been the scene of fierce fighting between American troops and militants loyal to the firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Fighting in Najaf killed two U.S. soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division on Sunday, the military reported Monday. A third soldier was killed Sunday in the volatile Anbar province, the center of the country's Sunni insurgency.

Police Chief Maj. Gen. Ghalib al-Jazaari said militants loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr broke into his family's house in the southern city of Basra and kidnapped his handicapped and ailing 80-year-old father.

"They dragged him on the street in front of the local residents," al-Jazaari said.

More

http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=World&cat=Iraq

[Snoggera]

5. I've been semi-frantically looking for news also

The next news I expect to see is that Jessica Lynch's younger sister singlehandedly saved the Mosque from being destroyed by 100 foreigners by throwing herself on a rocket propelled grenade and surviving without a scratch to tell the tale.