Now we know why there's an all-day curfew in Baghdad tomorrow...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/world/middleeast/30sunni.htmlIraqi Linked to Sunni Bloc Is Held in Plot, Military Says
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and QAIS MIZHER
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.
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Mr. Dulaimi, a hard-line Sunni, has long been at the center of the Sunni political elite, helping to found the largest bloc of Sunni parties and then acting as its leader. He was nominated but not chosen as speaker of Parliament this spring.
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