Iraq Lockdown: Its time for democracy

Timesonline: Phones down, borders sealed, troops on the streets:
State of alert will match the battle for Fallujah
The plan sounds more like the preparations for war than the holding of Iraq's first democratic elections. But such is the dire state of Iraqi security today that the authorities in Baghdad are considering a complete lockdown of the country ahead of polls in two weeks time.

According to Iraqi and Western sources, international borders will be sealed, movement between cities tightly controlled, mobile phone networks switched off and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi security forces and foreign troops deployed in a show of force not seen since the height of the war nearly two years ago. Link