Police: Curfew, door-to-door searches in Fallujah

[sabra]

Source: AP

BAGHDAD (AP) — A curfew was imposed Wednesday in a former insurgent stronghold west of the capital as security forces searched door-to-door after a suicide bomb attack the day before, an Iraqi police official said.

The curfew comes as a wave of violence hit Iraq this week, primarily in Baghdad, and the Interior Ministry, warning of the likelihood of more attacks, said measures were being taken to try to prevent them.

The curfew in Fallujah began at dawn, said the official. Vehicles and pedestrians are banned from the streets while authorities look for anyone connected to Tuesday's suicide car bomb.

The bomb exploded at a police checkpoint, killing three people and wounding seven others. Fallujah is a traditional Sunni stronghold in Anbar province and the site of some of the fiercest fighting during the war.

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Police shut down Iraqi city to hunt, arrest bombers

FALLUJA, Iraq, April 8 (Reuters) - Iraqi police shut down the city of Falluja on Wednesday, banning traffic and pedestrians as they hunted and arrested dozens of people suspected of being al Qaeda bombers.

Schools were closed, shops told to be shuttered and a curfew put in place from daybreak to late afternoon after explosions targeting police in the dusty city in the western desert province of Anbar, once the heartland of Sunni Islamist resistance to the U.S. occupation.

Around 35 people were arrested, a police official said, asking not to be named.

Most of those arrested had recently been freed by the U.S. military from its detention centres or were suspected in the past of being al Qaeda sympathisers, said Lieutenant-Colonel Aziz Faisal of Falluja police. He declined to confirm the number of arrests.

"We have received intelligence tips that they committed criminal attacks, using bombs, in the city recently," he said.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Ah, freedom is in the air in Falluja.

[ddss75]

2. better than body parts from suicide bombing victims

[LynnTheDem]

5. Too bad George W. bUsh the MFing dickhead started all this shit.

[ddss75]

7. I KNOW!!!

Man shit was so much better when Saddam ruled the country. At least now they have the freedom to blow each other up!!!

[Arctic Dave]

6. If the US was that concerned about body parts flying through the air

We would thoght a little more before dropping thousands of tons of ordanace on Iraqis.

[LynnTheDem]

8. No fucking kidding.

We had to "shock and awr" millions to give em "freedom".

America's killed more Iraqis than Saddam ever did. Iraqis didn't have to wear "burkas" under Hussein; they do now thanks to George W. bUsh. Basra used to be a wild university town of bars and shops and nightlife; now it's Shia militia rape & murder squads.

Biggest fucking "American foreign policy" blunder in decades. Not to mention the incredible immorality.

[Marrah_G]

3. These are Iraqis going after Iraqis that are blowing up other Iraqis.

Should they do nothing and allow the bombings to continue without trying to stop them?

[Blandocyte]

4. What part of Mission Accomplished

do the residents of Falujah not understand?

[sarcasmo]

9. Why are we still in Iraq?