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Aide to Iraq's Sadr says truce still in place

NAJAF, Iraq
Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:04pm EDT

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A ceasefire ordered by Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr remains in effect despite a crackdown on his followers in the southern city of Basra by government forces, a top aide said on Wednesday.

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"The freeze that Sadr has ordered is still ongoing," one of Sadr's senior aides, Luwaa Sumaisem, told Reuters in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf.

(Reporting by Khaled Farhan; writing by Peter Graff; editing by Ross Colvin)
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