Posted on 09/29/2006 7:35:44 PM PDT by TexKat
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.
The military did not identify the man it detained, but said he had been at a compound near the house of Adnan al-Dulaimi, leader of the Iraqi Consensus Front, the largest bloc of Sunni parties in Iraq, which holds about a sixth of the seats in Parliament.
Mr. Dulaimi confirmed that one of his guards was taken Friday, but he said he did not know the reason.
“Credible intelligence indicates that the individual and seven members of his cell were in the final stages of launching a series of vehicle-borne improvised device attacks inside the international zone, possibly involving suicide vests,” a military spokesman said.
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Green Zone plot ping
Nice catch. Good intel. Our new Defense Intel agency is doing the job that our CIA never could.
sounds like a candidate for the 'water torture' (or the comfy chair ...)
I knew that it had to be something going on that suddenly a curfew was imposed in Baghdad tonight.
I think there's more than this going on.
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Sunni, hmmm. Maybe a choice of talking to us or talking to al Sadr's guys?
FYI.
This image made from an undated Al-Qaida video distributed by U.S. government contractor IntelCenter shows Ayman al-Zawahiri in a video which was released Friday, Sept. 29, 2006. al-Zawahri condemned President Bush in the video statement, calling him a failure and a liar. (AP Photo/IntelCenter) MANDATORY CREDIT NO SALES
Thanks for the ping....knew something was up!
indicted Friday on charges of providing support to a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the current Iranian regime,
I think it is a she.
Zeinab Taleb-Jedi, 51 is a She?
The hyphen in the last name?
No kidding. In the article it refered to the perp as a she. Of course, I am very sleepy now and too tired to go back and check for sure. But I stink I am right.
Never mind, i mixed it up with the link labeled "U.S. citizen found in Iraq charged with supporting terror group" that someone linked to several posts up. Sorry. I am going to bed now.
Our intel is gettin better and better.
No shrapnel for you PING
"..went to Iraq in 1999 to attend a training camp run by the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said in a statement."
But, but , but there was no terrorists in Iraq before we invaded.
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