Baghdad On Lockdown As Rockets Fly
CNN
March 28, 2008
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Baghdad was on virtual lockdown Friday as a tough new curfew ordered everyone off the streets of the Iraqi capital and five other cities until 5 p.m. Sunday.
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That restriction didn’t stop someone from firing rockets and mortar rounds into the capital’s heavily fortified International Zone, commonly known as the Green Zone. One slammed into the office of one of Iraq’s vice presidents, Tareq al-Hashemi, killing two guards.
An American government worker also was killed in rocket and mortar attacks Thursday in the International Zone.
U.S. warplanes pounded Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood Friday, killing six people and wounding 10.
Other U.S. planes bombed Shiite militia positions overnight in the southern city of Basra, a British military spokesman said.
The British military said the firings were the first by coalition forces since the Iraqi army launched an operation Tuesday in Basra, Iraq’s second largest city.
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