Iraq to lift curfew on Tuesday morning

jefferson_dem

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Mon Nov-06-06 09:46 AM
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Iraq to lift curfew on Tuesday morning

Iraq to lift curfew on Tuesday morning

BAGHDAD, Nov 6 (Reuters) - A curfew in Baghdad and other areas in Iraq to prevent an insurgent backlash against a court ruling that Saddam Hussein should hang will be lifted on Tuesday, the prime minister's office said on Monday.

It said vehicles will be allowed back in the streets of the capital at 6 a.m. (0300 GMT). Pedestrians are free to travel immediately in Baghdad.

Heavy curfews in Baghdad and other areas mostly kept down violence on Sunday and Monday after the Iraqi High Tribunal convicted Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death by hanging. There had been fears a guilty verdict would unleash violence.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO646510.htm

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Mon Nov-06-06 10:05 AM
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1. timing--as they say--is everything

What a great job Bush is doing in the Global War on Terror, I better run out and vote R!! :sarcasm:

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