Wait a sec. I thought we didn't negotiate with terrorists:

Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr accepted a peace plan to end the fighting in Najaf that would disarm his militia and remove them from their hideout in a holy shrine.

However, he still wanted to negotiate how the deal would be implemented, an aide to the cleric said.

If the agreement is fulfilled - and al-Sadr has made contradictory statements in the past - it would resolve a crisis that has angered many of Iraq's majority Shi'ites and threatened to undermine the fledgling interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, which is already fighting a persistent Sunni insurgency.

Al-Sadr's loyalists and a combined US-Iraqi force have been fighting for nearly two weeks throughout the holy city, battling in Najaf's vast graveyard and in the streets of its Old City. A wall surrounding the Imam Ali Shrine, where the militants have holed up, was reportedly chipped in the fighting, and any damage to the gold-domed mosque itself would infuriate the world's 120 million Shi'ite Muslims.

I'm reminded of a statement I once heard about the influence of The Velvet Underground: they're first album may have only sold 1,000 copies originally, but everyone that purchased that album started a band.