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Muqtada Al Sadr according to this report has welcomed offers from the original Vatican to negotiate the standoff at the Shiite Vatican.

Radical Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr invited Pope John Paul II to solve the conflict between his militia and US-led Iraqi government forces in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, a spokesman said Tuesday.
"We welcome the offer from the pope at the Vatican and we invite him to solve the crisis," Sadr spokesman Ahmed al-Shaibani said.

On Monday, the Vatican offered to mediate to avoid further bloodshed and destruction in Najaf, where Sadr's militia are holed up in the centre of the city around the Imam Ali shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam.

"If asked, John Paul II would gladly accept a mediation role," the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, told Italian public radio.