Guns Being Confiscated in Prep for Baghdad Crackdown.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061301417_pf.html

BAGHDAD, June 13 -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's month-old government rolled out its first major initiative against violence on Tuesday, announcing tighter crackdowns in the capital city in an attempt to combat killings and kidnappings.

The plan imposes curfews from roughly dusk to dawn each day and prohibits cars from moving on the streets for four hours during midday on Fridays, when many Muslims attend prayers in mosques. Residents will not be allowed to carry guns outside their homes, and more patrols and checkpoints are planned to raise the visibility of the military.

"People are carrying guns in the streets. How do we know if they are terrorists?" Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Muhammed-Jassim, operations director of the general command of the Iraqi forces, said at a news conference at the Defense Ministry on Tuesday.

In the past week in Iraq, 203 civilians have been killed along with 78 insurgents, according to the Defense Ministry. In Baghdad alone, U.S.-led forces have conducted more than 1,100 patrols and set up 1,200 checkpoints to contain the violence.

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1. Project Better Bush PR. Wonder how many will die for his image now.

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3. 75,000 Iraqi AND U.S. Troops are preparing to "Cleanse" Bahgdad.

My God the carnage that's surely coming.

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6. All that to cleanse a city we keep hearing is a wonderful success.

Isn't Bagdad supposed to be living in the prosperous glow of post-invasion Iraq, happy under the new Iraqi democracy?

I get so confused. Is it Eurasia or Eastasia we have always been at war with?

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8. Just need to get a handle on the beheadings & torture & mayhem

And chaos and carnage.

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12. glad you noticed the AND US TROOPS!

M$M glossed over that one. That means bombs from the air as well. oh joy. :cry:

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4. dupe. delete. thanks.

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5. No, it's "Operation Forward Together" Iraq is now using the

same folks who write bullshit slogans for BushCo, apparently.

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7. Forward together for America's Elite.

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9. Well, it's not like they are different people.

Iraqi government is a subset of BushCo, and any attempts to behave otherwise meet with stern, and vigorous, correction. Offers they can't refuse, whatwhat?

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2. The NRA was right

Gun confiscation only happens in totalitarian nations, which is what Iraq is under this occupation and puppet government.

I'm sure the NRA will be raising their voices very loudly in opposition to this. Unless, of course, they think gun ownership is only for white men. Hmmmmm.

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10. Practicing in Iraq

Next step, take the guns away from Americans.

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11. Anyone packing is considered a terrorist.

And a target, and that's a lot of people.

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13. OPERATION MOVING FORWARD now underway in Baghdad