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| Iraq |
| Curfew lifted in Mosul |
| 2011-04-23 |
| NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A curfew imposed on the city of Mosul was lifted on Friday, according to a source form the Ninewa Operations Command. “The NOC lifted at 05:00 p.m. a curfew that was imposed on Mosul since the midnight of Thursday (April 21),” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Mosul, the capital city of the unrest-hit province of Ninewa, 405 km north of Baghdad, has witnessed two weeks of protests in which hundreds took part, particularly tribesmen, in addition to groups coming from other provinces like al-Anbar. The NOC had announced a curfew after clans protesting at al-Ahrar square, central Mosul, said they would start a strike. The protesters called for an end to corruption, release of detainees and no extension of U.S. forces’ missions in Iraq. |
| Posted by:Steve White |