Curfew called in Baghdad amid fighting; Sadr cancels million man march
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An official in the Baghdad operations command for Iraqi security forces has said that cars and motorcycles are banned from the streets of the Iraqi capital between 5am and midnight.
Sporadic gunfire and explosions continued across Baghdad's Sadr City district last night. Al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia has been fighting with US and Iraqi forces in Sadr City near Baghdad for the past three days.
Al-Sadr has threatened to end his shaky 7 month old ceasefire with US forces, credited in large part to the success of Bush's "surge" strategy. In a communiqué released in Baghdad yesterday, he demanded the Iraqi government protect the public from what he called the booby traps and American militias or he would formally end the call for non-violent resistance.
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mcwally
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Its about time the troops came home..first do the neccessary repairs to the infrastructure of iraq that has been destroyed by the war and then withdraw and re-group.To many young lives have been wastewd on this war machine already based on the words of a few men..and those words that were later to be admitted as untrue..Let the iraqi's have their own country back to live in as they want..and yes..of course offer future assistance if required..but only at their request not by invasion again.A time for peace is needed the troops over there deserve a life of stability the same as we all do..not the incessant drive towards making and selling more weapons ...time to replace weapons with Hope..Trust..Friendship..we only have this one world lets make it a great place to live for all..not only for the few..
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