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New Green Zone attacks.

By Amanda Terkel on Mar 31st, 2008 at 2:36 pm

The fortified Green Zone “came under fresh attack Monday, less than 24 hours after anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told his fighters to stand down following a week of clashes with government forces.” No serious injuries were reported today, but at least “two Americans working for the U.S. government died in attacks on the zone last week.” A U.S. soldier was also “killed by a roadside bomb in northeast Baghdad on Monday.”

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woodguy says:

As long as Shrub is in office (why is that, again?) the killing will go on, and no amount of spin will alter that fact.
March 31st, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Buckie Boy says:

This means the Surge is Working…..right?
March 31st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Fan of Man says:

yes! the surge is working! its romantic! freedumb flowers for everyone!
March 31st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Fritz says:

But…I thought we were going to “turn a corner”…
March 31st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
JBaddo says:

Im sure most ill-informed and ignorant Americans think the Green Zone is part of a baseball field or something. The GZ is a place furthest from the mind of the average and economically struggling John Q Citizen.

And why is it called the Green Zone? It really should be known as the Dead Zone or militarized zone. Why is everything labelled benign and harmless by the Yankee media in the killing streets of Baghdad?
March 31st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Who Misspoke Today? says:

No serious injuries were reported today, but at least “two Americans working for the U.S. government died in attacks on the zone last week.” A U.S. soldier was also “killed by a roadside bomb in northeast Baghdad on Monday.”

Death is not considered a serious injury?
March 31st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
MCMetal says:

Buckie Boy Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
This means the Surge is Working…..right?

Yeah

For Bin Laden and al Qaeda , anyway ………
March 31st, 2008 at 3:02 pm
hil_1 says:

Fritz we’ve turned so many “corners” we’ve been spinning in circles for at least the past 4 years… The question is when well that last 28-32% get off the damn tilt-a-whirl already?
March 31st, 2008 at 3:05 pm
The Dogfather says:

Those “last throes” sure are taking a while, aren’t they…?
March 31st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
hellinabucket says:

Sadr is flexing his muscle. Militarily and politically. He can qwell the civil war throughout the land and he can allow the “few deadenders” to continue the launching of mortars on the Green Zone.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Shayne says:

1oo more years, 100 more years. Rah, rah, rah. Senator McCain, any comment?
March 31st, 2008 at 3:18 pm
RUCerious says:

This is surely a sign that the surge is working! We’re providing easy targets so we can back track the trajectory of …INCOMING! Duck!
March 31st, 2008 at 3:18 pm
RUCerious says:

Dogfather, that was sure some Last Throe by Bush last night, HUH?
March 31st, 2008 at 3:19 pm
henry wallace says:

The Greenzone….it’s like ‘wonderbread’, fortified 12 ways and soft in the center.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:40 pm
The Dogfather says:

RUCerious Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Dogfather, that was sure some Last Throe by Bush last night, HUH?

Yeah, RU — high and outside; Froomkin today said they should have invited Cheney to shoot that thing down…

And let’s hope that was his last throe…I love baseball way too much to have it disgraced any furtther by the failed former owner of an AL team that hasn’t won anything in a while…
March 31st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
woodguy says:

raymundohpl Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 4:30 pm

???
March 31st, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Marie says:

Violence is up – surge needed.
Violence is down – surge required.

Violence in the green zone = we’re winning.

Iran participated in brokering a deal between Sadr and Maliki.
They’re both shiites. We are supporting shiites militarily; we are supporting sunnis with money to fight the shiites.
Can this be any more convoluted?
March 31st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Marie says:

#14 RUCerious
March 31st, 2008 at 3:19 pm

I enjoyed reading your pun — yesterday was Bush’s last “throe” — maybe we can start a list of all the lasts that we will have to endure as we countdown to his last day.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Badger says:

The Green Zone was an Island of Safety… from Car Bombs and Suicide Bombers because of Blast Walls and Checkpoints….until the INsurgency took to the air. Rockets and Mortars are flying right over the Wall.
Launched from the slums of Sadr City, these weapons will be hard to stop by airpower ( helicopter gunships) without causing many Civilian Casualties.
Let us hope these attacks are just a warning shot across our Bow by the Sadrists, and not a New Trend.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Above the Clouds says:

What a sad, Republican song. +4000 America dead, untold Iraqis killed and displaced and billions spent all for a slim chance that the radical Shiite Islamic group that eventually controls Iraq will “be nice” to the US.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:53 pm
batteries says:

Dogfather, that was sure some Last Throe by Bush last night, HUH?

Yeah, RU — high and outside; Froomkin today said they should have invited Cheney to shoot that thing down…

And let’s hope that was his last throe…I love hp nc8200 battery,hp 9400 battery baseball way too much to have it disgraced any furtther by the failed former owner of an AL team that hasn’t won anything in a while…
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