WASHINGTON - Al-Qaeda in Iraq on Friday declared a country-wide "curfew" in a bid to stop Sunday's elections from going ahead, the SITE monitoring agency said."The Islamic state declares for the time a curfew on election day... from six in the morning until six pm, throughout Iraq and especially in Sunni areas," the group said in a message posted on its website, according to SITE. "For the safety of our people, any of those who learn of this, report it to those who do not know and supply yourself with needs for the curfew."
The Islamic state of Iraq, the Al-Qaeda front in the country, added in the statement that anyone who defies the curfew will "unfortunately expose himself to the anger of Allah and then to all kinds of weapons of the mujahedeen."