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| Curfew imposed on Amara city in Iraq |
| 2006-10-24 |
| (KUNA) -- Iraqi security authorities on Monday imposed a curfew on al-Amara city, south of Baghdad, the Ministry of Defense said. Spokesman for the Ministry Mohamed al-Askari said the curfew was imposed on people and vehicles in al-Amara, a major city of south Iraq Mesan Province. He attributed that the curfew was imposed sine die owing to the deteriorating security situation in the city. Earlier on Monday, unknown militants killed an Iraqi police officer while he was leaving his house in central Amara City, which has recently seen strict security measures following the assassination of a high-ranking Iraqi police officer there, eyewitnesses said. The eyewitnesses told the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) here that unidentified gunmen on a white Toyota shot dead Iraqi first lieutenant Sarmad Maguid Al-Shati while he was leaving his house in the Sector 28 in downtown al-Emara City early Monday, before they fled the scene. The Iraqi police officer was killed a few hours after the corpse of the brother of Muqtada Al-Sadr's al-Mahdi Army commander was found in al-Emara. Awda al-Bahrani, spokesman for Muqtada al-Sadr's office in al-Emara confirmed the report in a news briefing, saying that the beheaded policeman Mohamed al-Bahdali, brother of al-Mahdi Army commander in the province Fadel al-Bahdali, was kidnapped by militants following the assassination of the Criminal Intelligence chief in Mesan last Wednesday. Earlier last week, Amara was the scene of clashes between Shiite militias and Iraqi policemen following the assassination of Iraqi police colonel Ali Qassem al-Tamimi and arrest of several members of al-Mahdi Army. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 No killing between 10:00 and 10:15 unless during Ramadan a ding-dong |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-10-24 00:23 |