Rockets hit Baghdad's Green Zone

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD - Two rockets have struck the highly fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, the seat of the Iraqi government as well as the location of the US and British embassies.

According to a US military spokesman, one rocket struck the area near the Iran-Iraq war monument where former leader Saddam Hussein used to review his troops.

The other landed near some high rise apartments in the zone.

There were no initial reports of casualties or damage. The attack came the same day that the government announced the launch of a reconciliation commission charged with healing the sectarian and ethnic divisions that have brought the nation to the brink of civil war.

On Wednesday, two mortars slammed into the Green Zone, killing one person and wounding two.

Though heavily protected by US, Iraqi and other coalition troops, the zone periodically comes under attack.

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/basket7st/basket7st1153574609.aspx

[katinmn]

1. I wonder if Cheney or Rummy are there on one of their secret .

arm-twisting missions.

[daleo]

2. Not if rockets are falling there

Cheney would have "other priorities".

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Too late for Rummy.

:cry:

[Imagevision]

4. shhh... Bush doesn't want any more bad news coming out of Iraq

civil war? what civil war??!!

[saigon68]

5. FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH

[happydreams]

6. Hezbollah seems to have found the range!!

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[BenDavid]

7. Gee, with no media

reporting anything this week or even last week, I thought this was all over in Iraq.....Then again I look at Military Fatalities and it is 2562 and know it is not over.....Then I look at the civilian and Iraqi forces list and this is something that is going under-reported, and I do hope Senator Reid does comes to the floor next week in the Senate and brings this up again, but unless the Dems make sure the media will be covering any of this, then it will be just like all this past week of non reporting from iraq:

Iraqi Security Forces and Civilian Deaths

Jul-06 942
Jun-06 870
May-06 1119
Apr-06 1010
Mar-06 1092
Feb-06 846
Jan-06 779

[chill_wind]

8. Any *American* media reporting this?

And -On Wednesday, two mortars slammed into the Green Zone, killing one person and wounding two.

Though heavily protected by US, Iraqi and other coalition troops, the zone periodically comes under attack.

[daleo]

9. I guess there are no safe havens in world with cheap rockets

Maybe humanity will be forced to turn to peace.

[Ms. Clio]

10. so when will the U.S. begin destroying the surrounding city

to create a "buffer zone?"

[Az_lefty]

11. Were they made in Iran?

just asking..
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