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Old 11-07-2004, 05:29 AM   #1 (permalink)
thefictionweliv
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This just in...A state of emergency in Iraq

This breaking news about Iraq just in:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3990141.stm
Quote:
Iraq declares state of emergency
Iraqi police vehicle on fire in Baghdad after rocket-propelled grenade attack, 7 November 2004
Violence in Iraq has escalated sharply in recent days
Iraq's government has declared a 60-day state of emergency in response to the escalation of violence by militants.

Official spokesman Thaer Naqib said the emergency would cover the whole of Iraq except Kurdish-run areas in the north.

He said the move came in response to mass killings and destruction of the country's infrastructure carried out by "criminals and terrorists".

He said the violence was part of a plot to derail the Iraqi government's progress towards January's elections.

In the latest incident of violence, Iraqi insurgents stormed a police station in the western province of al-Anbar, disarmed 21 officers and shot them dead.

Fighting at the Haditha police station, 200km (120 miles) west of Baghdad, lasted about 90 minutes, sources say, as the building was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.

There are also reports that a senior police officer was killed in an attack in the neighbouring town of Haqlaniya.

The insurgents' offensive is seen as a response to a planned assault by US troops on their stronghold of Falluja.

American and Iraqi forces are continuing preparations for the attack, amid reports that more than 100 insurgents have volunteered to drive suicide car bombs into the advancing troops.
If this is modeled anything after our administration it probably took many days of costly deliberation and 12 over funded special intrest groups. The common sense factor of their situation seems to already be buried in administrative paperwork...and then 60 days....I think that speaks for itself.

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