Baghdad's 10+ year curfew finally end with some road blocks being lifted as well - as 36 die from a - Polidicks

[quote]Iraq has lifted a years-old nightly curfew in the capital, Baghdad, in a bid by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's government to make the city feel more liveable despite persistent violence plaguing the country. The curfew, which most recently was in effect from midnight to 5:00am, ends a longstanding policy aimed at curbing attacks in the capital by limiting movement at night. As midnight approached on Saturday, some Iraqis gathered at Tahrir Square where city officials were throwing a party. And at the Mansour Mall, the biggest in the city, shops were staying open instead of closing at 11pm. "It's a positive decision for our business and our work. The shops will stay open much later and of course we will benefit," Tariq al-Ameri, a dress shop owner, said. Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf, reporting from Baghdad, said there was an upbeat mood in the city. "For the first time in more than ten years people will not have to rush home at midnight," she said. "It isn’t just the curfew that’s been lifted. The prime minister has also ordered more roadblocks taken down. In some neighbourhoods there’s a crackdown on arms carried by militias and a limit to the number of security vehicles officials can use." The curfew, first imposed by the US military in 2003 and kept in place by the Iraqi government, has done little to curb the deadly bombings that plague the capital. Most are carried out during the day or early evening with the aim of causing maximum casualties. In the latest attacks, just hours before the curfew was lifted, suicide bomb attacks killed at least 36 people and injured at least 94 on Saturday.[/quote] [url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/iraq-curfew-baghdad-150207215227007.html[/url]

Should I rate winner or friendly? It's great that the curfew has been lifted, but not so great that 36 people have been killed

Wouldn't it make more sense not to have the curfew? It shifts people who would have been moving about late at night towards the evening or morning, giving more crowded targets for terrorists to hit. The effect is probably small, but still counterproductive. I assume the theory was that terrorists would be making preparations during the night, transporting materiel or whatever, and that a curfew would disrupt this, but obviously it hasn't been stopping them.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;47097708]Wouldn't it make more sense not to have the curfew? It shifts people who would have been moving about late at night towards the evening or morning, giving more crowded targets for terrorists to hit. The effect is probably small, but still counterproductive. I assume the theory was that terrorists would be making preparations during the night, transporting materiel or whatever, and that a curfew would disrupt this, but obviously it hasn't been stopping them.[/QUOTE] Criminal acts generally happen at night, so the idea is that anyone caught after dark is most likely trying to do something illegal, making the cops job easier.

[QUOTE=ImperialGuard;47097722]Criminal acts generally happen at night, so the idea is that anyone caught after dark is most likely trying to do something illegal, making the cops job easier.[/QUOTE] Unless it's only for 5 hours, which is what this one was.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;47098354]Unless it's only for 5 hours, which is what this one was.[/QUOTE] Yea they should make a new one that lasts from 5am to 12am.

I still feel disgusted when I read and think about suicide bombings, especially the ones that are "successful" and kill 90+ people like this one. It's just so fucked. It's one of the few methods of murder I'll never become so called desensitized to. Yes, I admit certain fictional depictions, and even some real, don't quite make me sick to my stomach and cringe like they once used to. Beyond my point though. It's like even with the bomber dead, it really just adds to the body count and would be more fitting for them to suffer punishment living. I think in some cases it's better for them to be dead to prevent more killings from happening, but even then, someone just as sick and fucked tends to fill their space. It's kind of weird though how you can almost sort of perceive these bombings in the middle east as contained. Why aren't there bombings like this in Dubai or Abu Dahbi for example?

[QUOTE=NO ONE;47108872]I still feel disgusted when I read and think about suicide bombings, especially the ones that are "successful" and kill 90+ people like this one. It's just so fucked. It's one of the few methods of murder I'll never become so called desensitized to. Yes, I admit certain fictional depictions, and even some real, don't quite make me sick to my stomach and cringe like they once used to. Beyond my point though. It's like even with the bomber dead, it really just adds to the body count and would be more fitting for them to suffer punishment living. I think in some cases it's better for them to be dead to prevent more killings from happening, but even then, someone just as sick and fucked tends to fill their space. It's kind of weird though how you can almost sort of perceive these bombings in the middle east as contained. Why aren't there bombings like this in Dubai or Abu Dahbi for example?[/QUOTE] The United Arab Emirates are actually pretty stable. The fact that they're confederated prevents tribal tensions and thus there's less violence.