Iraq tightens controls on foreign nationals living in Baghdad
Mar 9, 2008, 10:51 GMT
Baghdad - Iraqi authorities announced Sunday new steps to ensure the legality of the residence permits of foreigners living in the capital as part of a plan to reduce violence in Baghdad.
Security checkpoints all over Baghdad have received instructions to check the validity of residence documents of Arab and foreign nationals and accredit legal ones, Major-General Qasim Atta, the spokesman for the Baghdad operations command, told the Voices of Iraq news agency.
'Those who do not have valid documents will be held accountable,' Atta said.
Since the 2003 US-led war on Iraq, hundreds of Arab nationals have been crossing into Iraq via neighbouring countries to take part in the insurgency against foreign and Iraqi troops.
The US and Iraq say many of those foreign fighters are loyalists of the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
But the flow of foreign insurgents is believed to have ebbed after Iraq signed security cooperation agreements with neighbouring Syria.
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