Iraqi Linked to Sunni Bloc Is Held in Plot, Military Says

[ECH1969]

BAGHDAD, Sept. 29 — American forces detained an Iraqi working for one of Iraq’s most prominent Sunni Arab political leaders on Friday on suspicion that the man was helping to plan a multiple-car suicide bombing inside the Green Zone, the military said.

Shortly after Iraqi television channels began Friday night to broadcast news of the detention, the Iraqi prime minister’s office took the unusual step of banning all vehicle and pedestrian traffic in Baghdad until Sunday morning.

The government declined to give a reason for the curfew and did not say whether it was linked to the detention. Authorities had never before banned walking in Baghdad, and the order may indicate fears that Sunni radicals might respond violently.

“Credible intelligence indicates that the individual and seven members of his cell were in the final stages of launching a series of vehicle-borne improvised device attacks inside the international zone, possibly involving suicide vests,” a military spokesman said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/world/middleeast/30sunni.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[ECH1969]

1. BTTT

[Bucky]

2. Banned walking. Repeat this. Think about the implications. To make it safe

...they've banned walking.

[Heidi]

3. .

:kick:

[Doctor_J]

4. Insurgents near the Green Zone - Baghdad Closed Down

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military said a captured al-Qaida suspect and members of his cell were "in the final stages" of planning an attack on the Green Zone. An unprecedented curfew prompted by the arrest left millions of Baghdadis stranded at home on Saturday without supplies during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061001/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

f the Green ZOne is breached, depriving Smirk of his ME photo backdrop, will he have to give up the "We're winning" lie? Will the media minions blame it on Clinton?

[shain from kane]

5. Saigon and the American Embassy, Tet Offensive. Didn't that

prove that Westmoreland had been lying?

[saigon68]

14. The only way out

[rodeodance]

6. it just gets worser and worser. Keep safe troops

[uppityperson]

7. helicopters

Iraq, Baghdad, Green Zone, Embassy, helicopters.

Edited to add, I hope there are few deaths amongst everyone involved. sigh

[Old and In the Way]

8. Can they hold onto Baghdad until after the election?

What a disgrace Bush, the Syndicate that supports him, and the idiots who vote for them, are.

[0007]

17. Play it again Sam!

When you’re dealing with a creature as insidious and as suppressive and as insane as junior, you’d better know how to spot his 1.1 behavior before he can cause anymore havoc.

[rocktivity]

9. If they've penetrated the Green Zone, it's time to call in the helicopters

But if this "suspect" has been "captured," how can they be "planning" anything?

:scared:
rocknation

[ShortnFiery]

10. This is hot! We may have to extract troops and personnel sooner

rather than later. :wow:

[LynnTheDem]

11. There's always

Choppers off the Green Zone roof, baby!

[Eugene]

12. They shut the whole city down to protect the Green Zone?

Even if they prevented an attack on the Green Zone,
they've probably blown the political goals of winning
Baghdad to Hell. This was overkill especially
since the Green Zone is already heavily defended.

[Doctor_J]

15. I don't think winning Baghdad was ever the goal

Building teh monument to Bush was. As long as the green zone remains safe, they'll have something to cling to.

[okoboji]

13. i just hope

they, the insane that is in charge, arn't planning on going in to start Shock n Awe 2006, how else will they get control back? - provide there was ever a time were we were in control.....

[Doctor_J]

16. Look for Shock and Awe in Tehran

They may even be able to do it in time to stage another one of these: