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| Tight security for Eid Al-Adha in Baghdad, 712 insurgents killed in 10 months |
| 2007-12-19 |
| (KUNA) -- The Iraqi authorities have taken a host of tight security measures to avoid any potential attacks against innocent people during the four-day Eid Al-Adha that starts Wednesday. In the meantime, security bodies said that up to 712 insurgents were killed, 5,246 of the wanted were arrested and 6,296 suspects were captured in ten months at the time when 1,859 civilians and 528 police and army personnel were killed. By the same token 4,470 civilians and 3,276 military personnel were wounded over the same period. Spokesman for the Baghdad Security Plan, Enforcing the Law, Brigadier Kassem Attallah said that they had taken due measures for a new security plan during Eid -Al-Adha for providing due protection for the public utilities, religious sites, mosques and parks. He pointed to the achievements realized through the application of the Enforcing the Law Plan which remarkably reduced the total volume of victims. Addressing a press conference in Baghdad, Attallah said that during the Eid vehicles would not be allowed to park in public streets or nears parks. Violators will be prosecuted. Motorcycles and cars will also be banned at crowded areas. Cars will have to be inspected before allowing them into their parks. According to Attallah up to 224 car bombings took place in Baghdad, in addition to 1,239 IED explosions and 122 assassinations took place in the Iraqi capital over the past ten months. Attallah said that 42 from the wanted and suspects of the guards of MP of the Iraqi Accord Front, Adnan Al-Delimi, were referred to court adding that they had received up to 275 complaints from Al-Adl quarter, against the MPs guards. |
| Posted by:Fred |