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Baghdad Green Zone hit by rockets
By AFP
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Insurgents on Tuesday slammed at least four rockets into the heavily-fortified Baghdad Green Zone, the seat of the Iraqi government and the US embassy, Iraqi and US officials said.
At least four Katyusha rockets struck the Green Zone, an Iraqi security official said.
The latest assault comes just two days after insurgents fired four waves of rockets and mortars into the area, which once served as Saddam Hussein's presidential compound, injuring six people and damaging buildings.
US embassy spokeswoman Mirembe Nantongo confirmed the attack and said there were "no deaths or major injuries."
Two rockets hit the fence of the Ibn Sinha hospital, another fell near a building that houses Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's security company and the fourth fell near the office of Blackwater USA, the private security company employed to protect US embassy personnel, a witness told AFP.
The US military claims that most mortar rounds or rockets that hit the area are fired by "rogue" elements of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia.
The top US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, blamed neighbouring Iran for the weekend attacks, saying they were "Iranian-provided, Iranian-made rockets".
He added in an interview with the BBC that Iran's actions were "in complete violation of promises made by President (Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad and the other most senior Iranian leaders to their Iraqi counterparts."
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AFTER 5 years occupying Iraq, with 4,000 American and over 600,000 Iraqi dead, and with the direct costs quickly approaching $1 trillion "borrowed" dollars, WE are in possession of the "green zone" of Baghdad. However, the sands of Baghdad are "barren", with the oil in the south, near Basra, controlled by the Iraqi Shite militias, and in the north, near Mozul, controlled by the Kurds. Neither group has much use for Baghdad, let them desert dwellers keep the sand, just let us keep our oil. The "forced" occupation of Baghdad, a city filled with sand, is "a lost cause", and WE should be bringing our soldiers home NOW!
The Iraqi government -- elected by who knows who -- must cower in the Green Zone under protection of America. Saddam Hussein could do better than that. Looks the Iraqi people lost a tyrant to a puppet-master and its puppet.
Does "the surge is working" mean that Bush and Cheney can thumb their noses at "we, the people" and tell us there is nothing we can do to stop their madness?
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The MSM and all the Fox Noise pundits have to keep the story-line straight for a week or two so they can jump into Iran by saying "the surge WAS working" before Iran messed it up.