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Indefinite curfew slapped on Baghdad after carnage
23 Nov 2006 16:45:27 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The Iraqi government imposed an indefinite curfew in Baghdad on Thursday, after one of the worst days of violence since the U.S. invasion in 2003, Iraqi state television said, quoting an Interior Ministry official.

Six car bombs earlier exploded in the Shi'ite district of Sadr City killing 133 people and wounding 201. The blasts, which were followed by a mortar barrage aimed at a nearby Sunni enclave, came at the same time as gunmen attacked the Shi'ite- run Health Ministry.
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Faleh Hasan Shanshal, a senior official in Moqtada al-Sadr's movement, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad's Sadr City November 24, 2006. Radical anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's political bloc, a key player in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government, threatened on Friday to withdraw from the cabinet and parliament if Maliki met U.S. President George W. Bush as planned in Jordan next week.