Iraqi Government Declares State of Emergency. Stay the course???

[spanone]

Ol Baghdad is really blossoming since our esteemed (:sarcasm:) leader went over and saw great progress.

~snip~ BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 23 — The Iraqi government declared a state of emergency in Baghdad after American forces were involved in quelling a firefight in the city's center.

Elsewhere in Iraq, at least 12 people died and 24 were wounded after a bomb exploded just outside in a Sunni mosque in the village where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed. And at least 10 people were killed by a car bomb in the southern city of Basra, news services reported. ~snip~

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/world/middleeast/23cnd-iraq.html?ei=5094&en=8fa854281d3e95cf&hp=&ex=1151121600&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

[PATRICK]

1. Downgraded to

an extended curfew as Iraq denies they made a sate of emergency announcement. Little on the firefight incident, less on the riots or total invisibility in the US media. Try the BBC.