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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (10436)	4/16/2004 1:49:30 AM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Poles Urge U.S. Against Najaf Assault -Report Thu Apr 15, 8:53 PM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish military officials responsible for security in part of southern Iraq (news - web sites) are arguing hard against taking Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr by force in Najaf, a leading Polish newspaper said late on Thursday. U.S. troops are now poised around Najaf, where Sadr's militia started an uprising earlier this month against the U.S.-led occupying forces, but America's top general said talks were under way to avoid a bloodbath in the city. "Going into Najaf will be a disaster, it will make the main Shi'ite leaders turn away from us," Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper quoted a senior diplomatic source as saying. "If Sadr gives up on violence, we should be talking with him. We want to talk with anyone in Iraq who doesn't shoot at us." Poland, a staunch ally of the United States, has 2,400 troops in Iraq and leads a multinational force based in Kerbala in the Shi'ite-dominated south-central zone of the country. On Thursday Polish forces in Iraq said they were blindsided by the violence with Sadr's followers because U.S. officials did not warn them of actions that triggered the bloodshed. Lt. Col. Robert Strzelecki, a spokesman for the Poles, said the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority did not inform the multinational division in advance of a decision to shut down a newspaper associated with Sadr or about the detention of a key lieutenant to the Shi'ite cleric. Asked if there was a difference of opinion with Washington over Najaf, Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski told the newspaper: "Our currency is dialogue and understanding. We do not need new troops in Iraq, just (new) political initiatives." CC