CNN Breaking: Smoke Billowing from Imam Ali Mosque! [View All]

[Cooley Hurd]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/19/iraq.main/index.html

CNN producer on site says area around mosque is decimated...

CNN Producer saying al-Sadr NOT in mosque???

CNN producer saying US Marines involved, however damage to mosque is restricted to two minarets (but smoke is billowing from the mosque???)

US Marines ringing the mosque...

al-Sadr aide tells CNN producer that they wanted to negotiate with Iraqi government, but shell fire from the Marines prevented it???