Iraq extends state of emergency

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Beset by rampant sectarian violence, Iraq's parliament voted on Tuesday to extend the country's state of emergency for 30 more days, and suspected Sunni-Arab insurgents set off bombs in three different areas of the country that killed eight Iraqis and wounded 40.

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In Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on the banks of the Tigris River, parliament voted unanimously to extend the emergency measures during a legislative session shown live on state-run Iraqiyah TV.

The state of emergency has been renewed every month since it was first authorized in November 2004.

It allows for a nighttime curfew and gives the government extra powers to make arrests without warrants and launch police and military operations. The measures are implemented in all areas of the country apart from the autonomous Kurdish region in the north.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061128/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Missy M]

1. Democracy at its best, G.W. Bush style.

[Massachusetts]

2. FUBAR

Watch the neocon RATS run for the sewers.

[acmavm]

3. Wonder when they'll catch on and just declare a permanent

state of fubar.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. What happens when

the US has to abandon the Green Zone?