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To: Skywatcher who wrote (16248)	7/14/2004 3:34:42 AM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 173976

So much for security...so much for Iraqi "democracy" Wednesday, July 14, 2004 7 Die in Green Zone Bombing Olympic Head Avoids Assassination Reuters reports that guerrillas killed at least 7 persons with a car bomb at the entrance of the Green Zone (which houses US and interim Iraqi government personnel. The head of Iraq's Olympic committee, Ahmad al-Hajiya, barely escaped being killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on Tuesday. The Zarqawi group took credit for beheading a Bulgarian hostage. Iraqi Police Arrest 527 in Dragnet Sistani calls for National Unity Al-Zaman: Iraqi police swept the al-Rusafah quarter of Baghdad on Tuesday, arresting 527 persons suspected of having committed violent crimes or of having been involved in weapons smuggling. They also made arrests of foreigners in the Bab al-Shaikh Quarter. This set of mass arrests appears to be the first practical result of the hard line policies announced by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Recent emergency decrees in Iraq have weakened civil liberties.