Fallout from the Baghdad bombings

Gregg Carlstrom | August 20, 2009 10:23 PM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

Aswat al-Iraq had a rather cryptic report today that 11 Iraqi police officers were arrested because of the bombings yesterday.

"The BOC arrested 11 police and army officers who were on duty in Bab al-Muaatham and al-Salihiya regions in central Baghdad and they are under investigation now on how the car bombs entered the regions under their protection," General Qassem Atta told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

There are also reports that the Iraqi government will stop removing the blast walls that divide Baghdad. Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki had ordered them removed earlier this month.

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