Round-the-clock curfew in the capital (Baghdad) until further notice

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j6BhgpVGqFOg9HdDJCN23calLo0QD8VN9LBG0

4 hours ago

BAGHDAD (AP) — Government television says Iraq's military command for Baghdad is extending a round-the-clock curfew in the capital until further notice.

The curfew was to have expired at sunrise Sunday. It was imposed Thursday night to curb violence in the capital.

[marmar]

1. Freedom is on the march ..... right out of the country.

Beware of Neocons bearing gifts.

[angstlessk]

2. round the clock?? how in the hell are these people to eat?? they don't have refrigeration

so they have had to purchase food regualrly...those poor people!!

[rzemanfl]

4. They don't have much electricity or water either, it is amazing how

they can keep the flowers and sweets fresh for our troops....

[TomInTib]

3. If it has come down to this....

then it simply means that there ain't no shit left in the bag.

Round-the-clock means you got nothing left but shoot-to-kill.

Pray for the innocent civilian population of Baghdad.

I feel so sorry for those people. What do they tell their children?


And the Little Man will sleep soundly on his Special Pillow tonight. I hope he strangles on his own bilious puke.

Bastards.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

5. Operation FUBAR

[chknltl]

6. Hostage Situation???

Is this about the oil? The maliki puppets signed it over to cheney's buddies. Then we start hearing of oil trucks being blown up...lots of them, (I think there were like 40 of them blown up in one evening). I am also hearing about oil pipelines being sabotaged. Then the maliki military orders the al-Sadr's(sp?) to lay down their arms and leave Basra, (port city in an oil rich province).
Now Baghdad is under this insane curfew.

I believe that Muqtada al-Sadr(sp?) is a populist leader, one NOT backed by the US because he has called for the withdrawal of American combatants. I am not sure but I think he is Shia, and Maliki is Sunni. Is it possible the the populist movement is trying to stop and/or sabotage this insane giveaway of Iraqi's oil? Is it possible that Moqtada al-Sadir is standing in the way of the completion of bushco's theft of Iraqi oil? This is a further stretch but: Is it possible that the maliki government is holding the citizens of Baghdad hostage in that: If Mouqtada al-Sadr and his "patriots" stand down, then the curfew will be lifted in Baghdad at which point the citizens will be allowed out again in order to get food and sustenance?

This is all pure speculation, I really have nothing to back any of it up...but something smells fishy and not like fresh fish either.

[Warpy]

7. Great for people who run out of food (most of them)

or who get sick or go into labor or who need to leave their homes.

It's shit like this that causes more problems than it's supposed to solve.

The militias will happily go to ground for a few days, have a little R&R while they repair weapons and build new bombs.

[spanone]

8. after five years, the iraqis must be going absolutely crazy

[malaise]

9. Lock people in their homes

bomb them and call them collateral damage. What a surge in Bushco's genocide plan.