Today in Iraq: "News blackout imposed on fighting in Najaf. %93The Iraqi authorities ordered foreign journalists to leave Najaf yesterday%2C threatening to arrest or even shoot reporters as US marines and Iraqi government forces resumed the fight against Shia militants. Iraqi police told the journalists to leave because of a supposed threat by insurgents to bomb their hotel. The intimidation - including shots apparently fired by police at the hotel - came as Iyad Allawi%2C the interim prime minister%2C hailed the birth of democracy in Iraq at the opening of a national conference in Baghdad.%94"