Round-the-clock curfew keeps lid on Iraq (2 US troops killed)

[Rose Siding]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A round-the-clock curfew imposed ahead of the verdict against Saddam Hussein kept a relative peace in Iraq's most dangerous regions on Sunday, but the U.S. military announced two more American deaths and police said 72 people were killed or found dead nationwide by daybreak.

Iraq's government clamped the open-ended curfew on Baghdad and the restive provinces of Diyala and Salahuddin, closed the city's international airport, added checkpoints and stepped up police patrols with the U.S. military. All leave for Iraqi soldiers was canceled.

No widespread bloodshed was reported in Baghdad, despite raucous celebrations by Shiites who defied the curfew in the capital to rejoice over the death sentence given to Saddam and angry counter-protests in Sunni regions.
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The U.S. military identified the two casualties as a soldier killed in fighting in western Baghdad and a Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7, who died from non-hostile causes in Anbar province. Both died on Saturday.

At least 13 U.S. troops have died in Iraq so far this month.....

AP at Yahoo

[truthisfreedom]

1. round-the-clock curfews in a "Democracy." is that what bush has planned

for us on Wednesday?

[jannyk]

2. It's 16 already this month Rose

http://www.icasualties.org/oif/

[rodeodance]

3. 3 were killed yesterday