By SELCAN HACAOGLU, AP
May 12, 2008
BAGHDAD - Authorities reported no violence in Baghdad's Sadr City yesterday, the first day of a cease-fire between Shiite extremists and US-backed Iraqi forces following two months of clashes.
US military officials said that the Iraqi government was still working out details of the truce with elements of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's movement. "It is important to emphasize that it is an ongoing dialogue process," said a US military spokesman, Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll. "It is premature to say there is an agreed-to truce."
Meanwhile, the US military yesterday said four people, including a woman and a child, were killed in an operation against al Qaeda in Iraq near the northern city of Mosul on Saturday. The military yesterday also announced that one US soldier was killed when the vehicle in which he was riding rolled over.
