They said some checkpoints had been lifted on Thursday and some blocked roads opened up. It was not immediately possible to verify the claim that the bomb was the first but no major incidents were reported in Baghdad on Wednesday. Police said there had not been a single bombing in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, the first day the security of the inner city became entirely the responsibility of Iraqi police and troops. withdrawal, a day labelled “National Sovereignty Day” by Iraqi authorities elated at what they see as a major step to shaking off a foreign occupation. The pullback from urban centres is a major milestone in a bilateral security agreement that calls for the last of the U.S.

soldiers who invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein to leave the country by the end of 2011. The blast on Thursday took place in the Abu Nawas area of central Baghdad during the morning rush hour. The bomb was the first in Baghdad, police said, since Tuesday’s partial U.S. troops pulled out of cities and handed security to their local counterparts, police said.

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