Political Violence Surges in Iraq

Caskets containing the bodies of four followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr are carried through Najaf. (By Khalid Mohammed -- Associated Press)

Two-Day Toll Reaches 100; Third Charter Deadline Missed
By Ellen Knickmeyer and Anthony ShadidWashington Post Foreign ServiceFriday, August 26, 2005; Page A01

BAGHDAD, Aug. 26 -- Political violence surged Thursday along many of Iraq's ethnic and sectarian fault lines, while Shiite and Sunni Arab political leaders haggled past a third deadline without reaching accord on a draft constitution.
As the two-day death toll around Iraq reached 100, fighting between two powerful Shiite militias in the southern city of Najaf subsided, with 19 reported dead overall. The clashes Wednesday night and Thursday between the Mahdi Army, loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, and fighters allegedly linked to the government-allied Badr Organization were the deadliest between Iraqi militia forces since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003................

and on and on and on it goes. where it stops NO BODY knows.