Iraqi National Conference is test run for Repub National Convention in NY

[kentuck]

Notice the techniques used to protect the Iraqi National Conference taking place in Baghdad? And see what they do in NYC?
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2F34645A-0FFD-41AF-AE66-CF1F50D1A943.htm

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Baghdad shut down

Iraqi Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib also declared a curfew on the city centre to secure the safety of the unknown participants, starting on Sunday morning and lasting three days.

The government has imposed an 8am to 4pm daylight curfew in the old Karkh and Shaikh Maruf districts, adjacent to the Green Zone, for the duration of the conference expected to last until Monday or Tuesday.

The conference is to have limited legislative powers. It is to advise the selected interim government as it paves the way for national elections in January 2005.

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