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| Iraq |
| Bomb plot against ministries in Baghdad thwarted |
| 2010-01-13 |
| Iraqi forces seized a large cache of explosives and arrested suspected insurgents allegedly planning to target government ministries Tuesday, in a crackdown across the capital that brought parts of the city to a standstill. The security measures demonstrated the ever-present fear that insurgents will carry out more bombings, like the ones against government buildings in past months that killed hundreds, ahead of the March elections. The government's announcement that it had arrested 25 suspects and seized 880 pounds (400 kilograms) of military grade explosives also set off bitter accusations from some Sunni politicians that the government had exaggerated the incident to burnish its security credentials. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #1 Finally, some good news to interrupt the drumbeat of Baghdad detonations. It was getting hard to believe the improved-situation violence statistics when every week or so there was another couple dozen or a hundred or more innocents killed by bombing cells. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-01-13 13:14 |