Vehicles banned in Baghdad for Shiite pilgrimage

Sunday, August 26, 2007

BAGHDAD -- Iraq banned motorcycles, bicycles and horse-drawn carriages from the streets of Baghdad indefinitely Saturday in advance of a major Shiite religious ceremony, the military said.

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