Two Americans Among Dead in Baghdad Green Zone Blasts

[Flagg]

Two Americans Among Dead in Baghdad Green Zone Blasts





BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two Americans were among eight people killed in two bomb blasts in Baghdad's Green Zone on Thursday, the U.S. military said, after one of the bloodiest attacks on the highly-protected compound.



"We don't know if they were military or civilian," a spokeswoman said.


The two were among six people killed at a busy bazaar selling souvenirs inside the compound, which houses Iraqi government offices and the U.S. and British embassies on the west bank of the Tigris river.


Another two civilians were killed in a separate blast at a popular cafe nearby. The blasts occurred about five minutes apart, just before 1 p.m. The nationalities of the other victims are not yet known, the spokeswoman said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041014/ts_nm/iraq_americans_dc&cid=564&ncid=1473

[nine30]

1. Make that 3 ( USAToday) (nt)

[AlCzervik]

2. it's only a matter of time before the green zone gets

breached in a very big way.

[daleo]

3. Green zone to become the newest no-go zone?

It looks like the occupation forces are even vulnerable in their inner redoubt. Didn't this happen in Viet Nam, too?

[hadrons]

4. Yahoo! says 5 dead, 3 American

Blasts Kill Five in Baghdad's Green Zone
(AP) - Insurgents penetrated Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone and set off bombs at a market and a popular cafe Thursday, killing five people, including three Americans, the U.S. military said, in a bold attack on the compound housing the U.S. and Iraqi government headquarters. A top Iraqi officials said the attacks appeared to have been a "suicide operation." If so, it would be the first time insurgents have successfully infiltrated and set off bombs in the heart of the U.S.-Iraqi leadership of the country.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=World&cat=Iraq

[Flagg]

5. Civilians or military ?

[fishnfla]

6. Woah! Inside the green zone? Horrible

that is gonna rattle some nerves there for sure

[UpInArms]

7. related article: U.S.: Baghdad Blasts Kill Four Americans

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=165292

U.S. Official Says Blasts in Baghdad Kill Four Employees of Private Security Firm DynCorp

WASHINGTON Oct. 14, 2004 — Four Americans killed in bombings in the Green Zone in Baghdad on Thursday were all employees of the private U.S. security firm DynCorp, a U.S. official said Thursday.

Two State Department officials were injured, neither critically, along with another employee of the company, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. And several Americans were injured in a second blast.

The firm, Dyncorp, helps provide security primarily in areas where Americans work in the Iraqi capital.

Mike Dickerson, a spokesman for Computer Services Corp., the parent company, confirmed there were several DynCorp casualties, including fatalities. He had no information on the number of casualties or their identities.

The fact that insurgents were able to penetrate Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone that contained U.S. and Iraqi government headquarters was a serious setback to the Bush administration's campaign to pacify postwar Iraq.

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[Wind Dancer]

8. The never ending war.

Things will never get better until we get out. What have we done?
:cry: