Baghdad to reopen bridge closed since deadly stampedeAuthorities in Baghdad were preparing to open on Tuesday a major bridge that was closed for more than three years after nearly 1,000 Shiite pilgrims perished in a deadly stampede. Iraqi army The Iraqi Army is the army of Iraq, active in various forms since the country was formed in the aftermath of World War I. Today, it is a component of the Iraqi Security Forces tasked with assuming responsibility for all Iraqi land-based military operations following the 2003 soldiers removed the concrete barriers on both sides of the bridge and replaced them with checkpoints ahead of a celebration to mark the reopening, Baghdad security spokesman Major General Qassim Atta told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. . The Al-Aima (Imams) bridge over the Tigris river Tigris River Arabic Dijlah Turkish Dicle biblical Hiddekel River, Turkey and Iraq. It originates in the Taurus Mountains at Lake Hazar and flows 1,180 mi (1,900 km) southeast through Turkey and past Baghdad to unite with the Euphrates River at links the centuries-old neighbourhoods of Kadhimiyah and Adhamiyah, the former named for a revered Shiite shrine and the latter built around the tomb of a famed Sunni lawmaker. The move is expected to help ease traffic in the bustling capital and help repair the deep sectarian divisions that have plagued the city since the eruption of Sunni-Shiite violence in 2006. It comes amid dramatic improvements in security in the capital, where tens of thousands of US and Iraqi forces have largely routed the sectarian militias and insurgents Insurgents, in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon. that once ruled large swaths of the city. The bridge was closed after a deadly stampede on August 31, 2005 during a festival attended by tens of thousands of pilgrims marking the death of revered Shiite Imam Musa Kadhim 12 centuries ago. A mortar attack and rumours of a suicide bomber Noun 1. suicide bomber - a terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political among the crowd sparked the tragedy, the deadliest to hit Iraq in the aftermath of the US-led invasion of 2003. On the other side of the bridge sits the Abu Hanifa Abu Hanifa (äb  ` hänē`fä), 699–767, Muslim jurist. He founded the Hanafite system of Islamic jurisprudence, which gives the judge considerable discretion when the Shrine, containing the tomb of the eighth century founder of one of the four main Sunni schools of Islamic law.
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