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Iraq Claims Emergency As Insurgency Flares

By TINI TRAN, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The government declared a 60-day state of emergency throughout most of the country Sunday, as U.S. and Iraqi forces prepared for an expected all-out assault on rebels in Fallujah. Insurgents escalated a wave of violence that has killed more than 50 people the past two days.

Heavy explosions were heard in Baghdad as government spokesman Thair Hassan al-Naqeeb announced the state of emergency over the entire country except Kurdish areas in the north.

"It is going to be a curfew. It is going to be so many things, but tomorrow the prime minister will mention it," he said. Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi will give more details Monday, he said.

Al-Naqeeb declined to say whether the announcement signaled an imminent attack on the insurgent stronghold Fallujah, saying, "We have seen the situation is worsening in this area. Any obstacle will be removed."

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It is unbelievable that Bushies dare to claim that situation in Iraq is getting better and better but actually it is getting worser than ever. So time for the truth to get out and spit on your face. I will post several more articles that is developing...
 
Two blasts heard in central Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Nov 7 (Reuters) - A powerful explosion rang out in central Baghdad on Sunday, witnesses said, but there was no immediate word on what had caused it.

The blast at midday (0900 GMT) shook windows in a central area. There was no immediate word on casualties or damage.

A smaller explosion echoed across the Iraqi capital nearly an hour later, witnesses said.

A U.S. military spokeswoman said she had no information on either of the blasts.

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21 shot dead in Iraq police station massacre

RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) - Gunmen shot dead 21 policemen, execution style, in Iraq (news - web sites), one day after a scourge of car bombs and clashes against police and local government targets killed 36 people.

The renewed violence against symbols of Iraq's US-backed government came as Prime Minister Iyad Allawi looked set to mount an offensive on rebel-held Fallujah, in the heart of Al-Anbar province, where the police massacre occured.

About 200 gunmen ambushed the main police station in Haditha, a town 200 kilometres, (120 miles) west of Baghdad, and another smaller station in the nearby village of Haqlaniya, said a local police officer.

"The attackers disarmed the police, gathered them together and then shot them dead," he said of the Haditha raid.

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12 Iraqi Guardsmen Abducted, Executed

NAJAF, Iraq - Militants dressed as police abducted and executed 12 Iraqi National Guards who were traveling home to Najaf, an official with a leading Shiite party said Sunday.

The 12 men were kidnapped near Latifiyah, an area of frequent violence bout 20 miles south of Baghdad, said Abu Ali al-Najafi from the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (news - web sites), known by its acronym SCIRI.

They were heading home to Najaf on Thursday after a visit to Baghdad when the kidnappers, disguised as policemen, stopped their convoy, said al-Najaf, speaking from SCIRI offices in Najaf. The 12 were seized along with the convoy's driver, though a 13th guardsman escaped.

The assailants, who later identified themselves as members of a group calling itself the al-Furqan Brigade, tortured the driver, breaking his arm and sending him off with a ransom demand to their relatives, for payment of $1,000 for each "headless body of their dear one," Al-Najafi said.

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Iraqi Declaration of State of Emergency - statement

Here is the Iraqi government statement declaring a state of emergency, read to journalists in Arabic and translated by The Associated Press

"Because of the continuation of a pattern of violence and terrorism and the daily operations of mass murder so that even children and women have not been spared, and that are committed by terrorist intruder groups against the sons of our people and in an indiscriminate manner, and because these groups went too far in practicing various malicious methods in their persistent attempt to paralyze the state's activities through their organized criminal practices of murder that reached the sons of our people, and because of these groups' deliberate destruction of the country's infrastructure on daily basis, and to block these groups that are pursuing their goal to hinder the correct democratic process, represented by holding general elections in all the country, and given that the government has exhausted all possible means and has made all the necessary and expansive contacts to include everyone in the peace process, instead of resorting to violence, we decided to declare a state of emergency in all parts of Iraq (news - web sites) with the exception of the region of Kurdistan for a period of 60 days starting the date this decision has been issued, based on the stipulations of Article No. 1 of the National Safety Law No.1 for the year 2004.

"The ministers must implement this decision on the basis of the requirements to provide security and to issue the necessary orders in the areas where it has been specified to start implementing the national safety law."

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Two British troops injured in Iraq attack

LONDON (AFP) - Two British soldiers were injured in a suicide bomb attack near their base southwest of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the Ministry of Defence in London said.

"We are aware of an incident that happened at 9:22 am local time near Camp Dogwood," a ministry spokeswoman said. "There are two casualties. They are with the US medical chain. They have been airlifted out by the Americans."

She confirmed to AFP that the soldiers had been targets of a suicide bomber, and that both had been seriously hurt.

The two soldiers were thought to be part of the Black Watch regiment, although they have not been named and their next of kin have yet to be informed.

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52 Killed In Spate Of Attacks In Iraq

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq (news - web sites), Nov. 7 -- More than 30 people were killed and more than 60 wounded in a rash of suicide bombings and mortar and rocket attacks in the Sunni Triangle on Saturday, as U.S. Marines and soldiers prepared for a possible assault on the rebel-held city of Fallujah.

The wounded included at least 16 U.S. soldiers injured when a suicide bomber rammed a car into their convoy in Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad, U.S. officials said.

On Sunday, insurgents launched deadly attacks against police stations in western Anbar province killing at least 22 more people, police and hospital officials said, the Associated Press reported.

The deadliest violence occurred Saturday morning in Samarra, a city about 65 miles north of Baghdad that U.S. and Iraqi forces retook from insurgents early last month. A series of closely coordinated attacks killed about 30 people, according to tallies by news services, which canvassed hospitals. More than half of the casualties were Iraqi police officers killed in mortar attacks or ground assaults on police stations.

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Iraq Militants Threaten to Kill Three Jordanians

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Islamic group threatened to behead three Jordanian drivers on Sunday unless Jordan bans local firms from transporting goods to U.S. forces in Iraq (news - web sites).

"The Jordanian government has responded with indifference and failed to issue a statement banning dealings with the infidel American forces," said a member of the Army of Islam-Counter Attack Brigades on a video released to Reuters.

"We will subject them to the knife and kill them viciously unless the Jordanian government responds to this order in 48 hours," the masked man said.

The three men were among four Jordanian drivers kidnapped in western Iraq last week. The fate of the fourth is unknown.

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Confessions Show Terror's Spread in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi government television has repeatedly broadcast confessions of what it says were foreign terrorists — 17 Arabs and two Iranians — who allegedly infiltrated the country's porous borders to fight U.S.-led coalition forces.

The confessions, aired several times over the weekend, coincided with the massing of U.S. and Iraqi forces near Fallujah for an anticipated showdown with insurgents who have made the city their headquarters.

The broadcasts were seen as a means of preparing the population for the coming attack on Fallujah, where the government says it's after foreigners and "terrorists" not city residents who are not involved in the insurgency.

The station, Iraqiya, showed 19 men ages of 20 to 40, dressed in blue jumpsuits and lined up against a wall while the camera panned their pale, bearded faces.

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