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Iraq renews state of emergency for month |
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from Associated Press
Entered into the database on Sunday, May 15th, 2005 @ 17:31:14 MST |
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The emergency decree, which has been renewed monthly since first being imposed
Nov. 7, includes a nighttime curfew and gives the government extra powers to
make arrests without warrants and launch police and military operations when
it deems necessary. The current 30-day period began May 3 and covers all of Iraq except for northern
Kurdish-run areas, interim Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's office said in
a statement. The statement provided no further details. The state of emergency was first imposed hours before U.S. and Iraqi troops
launched a major offensive to drive insurgents out of Fallujah, west of Baghdad. Al-Jaafari, who formed a new government late last month, said earlier this
week that he would impose martial law if insurgents continued their spree of
attacks. Friday's announcement came as U.S. troops continued a major offensive in western
Iraq near the Syrian border in search for followers of the country's most wanted
militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. |
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