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| Iraq Parliament Stops Work until Blast Walls Put Back |
| 2012-06-22 |
| [An Nahar] The speaker of the Iraqi parliament said on Thursday that he had ordered a halt to all work at the legislature until concrete blast walls removed in recent days are put back. Osama al-Nujaifi said that if the government were confident that the security precaution was no longer necessary, then all of the protective barriers around the entirety of the Green Zone, Storied Baghdad's ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... fortified government and embassy compound, should be removed. "I suspended the working hours... and we requested the return of all the blast walls," Nujaifi told a news conference at the parliament building inside the Green Zone. "Removing the blast walls at this time is very dangerous for the employees of parliament," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |