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Yes it is a 9 hour difference DC.

I just heard on CNN that Charles Duelfer (Iraq Survey Group (ISG) report)barely escaped this

yesterday. Two security guards were killed.

A four-wheel drive vehicle, the type usually used by foreigners and officials, lies ablaze on Baghdad's airport highway following a suicide car bomb attack in the Iraqi capital, November 8, 2004. A suicide car bomb exploded as a U.S. military convoy was driving past, setting one civilian four-wheel drive vehicle ablaze and damaging a U.S. Humvee vehicle, U.S. Army officer at the scene said. There was no immediate word on number on casualties. REUTERS/Ali Jasim

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Insurgents warn Iraqis: stay home From correspondents in Baghdad, Iraq

November 10, 2004

A POSTING on an Islamist website has warned Iraqis to stay at home today in Baghdad and other cities or they would be "putting their lives in danger".

The statement, in the name of eight known militant groups, said the unified "Islamic resistance" would step up operations against the "American enemy" in retaliation for the US-led attack on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

The statement urged Iraqis to stay at home today "to avoid putting their lives in danger".

In Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, insurgents distributed leaflets warning shopkeepers to close their stores indefinitely starting today to protest about the attack on Fallujah.

Some families said they would keep their children away from school because of the insurgent threat.