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Iraq's Parliament extends state of
emergency for 30 more days except Kurdistan Region
28.11.2006
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BAGHDAD, November
28, -- Parliament voted unanimously today to extend
Iraq's state of emergency for 30 more days, and
suspected Sunni insurgents set off bombs that killed
eight people and wounded 40 across the country.
Lawmakers decided to continue the state of emergency
that allows for a nighttime curfew and gives the
government extra powers to make arrests without
warrants and launch police and military operations.
The measures, in place everywhere except for the
northern autonomous Kurdish region, have been
renewed every month since they were first authorized
in November 2004.
Sectarian violence has worsened, and two car bombs
exploded today near a hospital morgue in Baghdad,
killing three civilians and one policeman and
wounding 19 civilians, a police officer said on
condition of anonymity to protect his security.
Insurgents kill many of the Iraqi security forces
working with the U.S.-led coalition. |
Iraq's parliament |
U.S. forces investigating the crash said that
insurgents had reached the site before American
forces could and the pilot is missing. Maj. Gen.
William B. Caldwell, a U.S. military spokesman, said
there was no indication the plane, deployed to the
332nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Balad Air Base in
Iraq, was shot down.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will meet with
President Bush in Jordan this week to discuss the
sectarian violence that threatens to push Iraq into
a full-scale civil war, including attacks by
suspected Sunni-Arab insurgents that killed more
than 200 people last week in Baghdad's Sadr City
slum.
Caldwell, the U.S. military spokesman, said
"elevated levels of violence as a result of" the
Sadr City attacks were expected over the next
several weeks.
As he spoke in the heavily fortified Green Zone,
anger remained strong in Sadr City, a stronghold of
the Mahdi Army militia of radical anti-American
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a key backer of al-Maliki.
More than 2,000 Sadrists marched through the slum to
mark the seventh anniversary of the assassination of
the cleric's father, Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, a
revered Shiite religious leader.
"Thursday's attack was another attempt by the
terrorists who killed Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr to
destroy Sadr City and his followers," said Hazim al-Araji,
an aide to Muqtada al-Sadr.
AP
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