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Title: While Petraeus testifies, US embassy Iraq employees ordered to sleep in their offices
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URL Source: http://www.americablog.com/2008/04/ ... aeus-testifies-us-embassy.html
Published: Apr 8, 2008
Author: John Aravosis
Post Date: 2008-04-08 17:10:14 by aristeides
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While Petraeus testifies, US embassy Iraq employees ordered to sleep in their offices by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/08/2008 04:17:00 PM ET Under this new security boost, says a U.S. Embassy official who asked not to be identified, embassy personnel have been told to remain under "hardened cover." Instructed to avoid their trailers, some embassy staffers are now sleeping in their offices and on cots in the new embassy building, currently under construction, according to a source who has spoken with embassy officials in Baghdad. Embassy personnel have also been cautioned to limit their trips outdoors and, when they must leave the protection of reinforced structures, to wear flak jackets, protective eyewear, and helmets.As General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker testify before Congress this week about the security situation in Iraq, telling the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that the surge is working and progress is under way, U.S. embassy officials in Baghdad have been ordered to take heightened security precautions in light of stepped-up attacks on the Green Zone, including one on Sunday that killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded 17 others.
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One-day vehicle curfew declared in Baghdad. Yes, that surge is sure succeeding.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
A one-day vehicle curfew has been imposed on Baghdad for Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime, Baghdad military command announced.
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