Maliki: Security Plan Leaves Militants Nowhere to Hide
25 January 2007
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says his plan for security in Baghdad will leave no place for militants to hide, even as a series of bombings struck the city.
In a speech to parliament Thursday, Mr. Maliki urged politicians from all sides of Iraqi society to support his plan for security in the capital.
He rejected suggestions that the plan is a last chance to end sectarian and insurgent violence, saying the battle "is open-ended and continuous."
In violence Thursday, a suicide car bomb struck a market in Karrada in central Baghdad, killing 20 people and wounding at least 18 others. Earlier, at least four Iraqis were killed and nearly 20 wounded when an explosives-packed motorcycle blew up in another market, Shorja, in central Baghdad.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi has called the occupation of Iraq an "idiot decision." The Shi'ite official was speaking Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
On Wednesday, the U.S. military said Iraqi and American troops killed at least 30 insurgents and detained 27 suspects during fierce fighting in the city's Haifa Street region, a known Sunni Arab stronghold.
In another operation in Baghdad, the U.S. military says troops detained 10 terrorists after witnesses reported seeing men loading weapons into a car. They also seized four weapons caches.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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