Calm before the storm in Baghdad: "The threat from the 'Combined Mujahideen Brigades' to launch operations in Baghdad is being taken seriously. Security officials circulated a warning last week prompting many media organisations and contractors involved in reconstruction work to pull out.
... Privately, CPA officials say they were surprised by the recent unrest. David Richmond, the British Government's representative in Baghdad, admitted that the current situation was 'extremely difficult'."
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