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U.S. Embassy restrict their members .. The Sadrists vows targeting
On: Wed, 12/08/2011 10:39
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New York Times reported that the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has imposed tough new restrictions on the movement of working for the Iraqi government within the heavily fortified Green Zone because of threats of terrorist attacks and kidnappings near the entrance of the embassy and in Iraq in general. In a statement on its website on Sunday, the embassy said it had restricted movement in the Green Zone and increased security measures,
It is to go to a nearby shop or a restaurant or offices in the region, the embassy staff may be accompanied with a security guard. Time ago, and U.S. officials and Iraqis are preparing to face the violent acts with the withdrawal of the last armed American soldiers from the U.S. bases remaining. Some soldiers will remain to protect the embassy with thousands of security contractors in the diplomatic sites.
and went on to say: U.S. officials did not provide further details about these threats. And part of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad regularly warn travelers Americans and citizens of kidnap threats and acts of terrorism during trade fairs or during demonstrations. These acts of terrorism cast a shadow on life in Iraq, where about 200 exposed to the murder of an Iraqi citizen in every month.
and she said that the announcement of the stringent security measures is unusual and comes days after the introduction of a suicide explosives into the Green Zone, outside the gates of the Iraqi parliament. Iraqi officials say the blast was a desperate attempt against the President of Parliament Osama Najafi, or Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
and on the other side, threatened the Sadrist movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr, Washington, targeting the embassy by the military wing of the stream if the number of employees more than the number of staff of their Iraqi counterparts in the Washington, and works to represent the State of the occupation in Iraq.
The MP said the current Jawad Alshahyla that "the attitude of the Sadrist movement after the American withdrawal depends on the position of the United States from Iraq and whether will deal likewise on embassies," noting that "if the embassy and Washington was working like other representative of the States the other in Iraq, we do not have anything but if the number of employees more than the staff of their Iraqi counterparts in Washington and represent the State of the occupation, there will be another response to the military wing of the Sadrist movement. "
He Alshahyla that the "Statement of Moqtada al-Sadr and clear to freeze the military wing of the Sadrist movement of brigade promised day to facilitate the American withdrawal in order not to remain an argument for them not to withdraw. "
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