Saturday, September 30, 2006

U.S.: Guard planned Green Zone attack (AP)

Members of the Iraqi army man a checkpoint in Baghdad Saturday Sept. 30 2006 as the Iraqi government ordered a complete ban in Baghdad to pedestrian and vehicular traffic through Sunday morning.  The curfew was put into place on the advice of U.S. forces following the arrest of a bodyguard detained at the home of a leading Sunni Arab politician and suspected of being a member of al-Qaida in Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed )AP - The U.S. military said a captured al-Qaida suspect and members of his cell were "in the final stages" of planning an attack on the Green Zone. An unprecedented curfew prompted by the arrest left millions of Baghdadis stranded at home on Saturday without supplies during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.


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