Arabyia, a Dubai-based satellite channel, to shut down its Baghdad operations for one month, Iraqi state television reported. The station could not immediately confirm the order, apparently issued by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Cabinet. «We have not officially been informed about the banning and we do not know the causes. Only the cabinet knows the causes,» said Jawad Hatab, the Al-Arabyia bureau chief in Baghdad was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.