Heavy fighting has resumed in Najaf as U.S. war planes bombed parts of the holy city overnight. Backers of cleric Moqtada al Sadr report the outer walls of the Imam Ali Shrine were damaged in the attacks. On Friday a spokesman for Iraq’s interior minister said that Sadr had agreed to surrender control of the Imam Ali shrine and that Iraqi police were in control of the complex. But the claims proved to be false.