Courtesy of My Way News:

By Peter Graff

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq imposed a total daylight curfew on Baghdad on Saturday, banning all movement, as U.S. forces said they had foiled a possible suicide plot to attack the city’s sprawling “Green Zone” government compound.

U.S. troops on Friday arrested a security guard at the home of the leader of the main Sunni political bloc. The U.S. military said on Saturday the man was suspected of planning car bomb attacks on the fortified zone.

“Coalition force personnel detained an individual at the residence of Dr Adnan al-Dulaimi in Baghdad September 29. The detained individual is suspected of involvement in the planning of a multi-vehicle suicide operation inside Baghdad’s International Zone,” the military said in a statement.

It said the man may have been linked to al Qaeda, and the plan might have been to use suicide vests in the attack. U.S. forces did not enter Dulaimi’s house, but searched a security trailer there and the suspect’s car, it said.

Dulaimi leads the Accordance Front, the largest Sunni bloc in parliament, which is also housed inside the Green Zone.

A senior official in the Front named the arrested man as Khudhar Farhan and said he was in his mid-20s and had joined Dulaimi’s security staff about a month ago. Farhan did not have a security pass to enter the Green Zone, he said.

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