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Bosonic

(3,746 posts)
Tue May 5, 2015, 05:17 PM May 2015

Two rockets fired into Baghdad's heavily fortified 'Green Zone'

Source: Reuters

Two rockets were fired into Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone", home to the prime minister's office and several Western embassies, on Tuesday, and car bombs elsewhere in the capital killed seven people.

No casualties were reported in the rare attack on the Green Zone, police and medical sources said.

The frequency of attacks in Baghdad has increased since a decade-old night time curfew was lifted earlier this year.

A car bomb blew up in the upscale district of Arasat in central Baghdad, killing five people, and another explosion in a crowded market two more in the Ubaidi neighborhood of the capital, the police and medical sources said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/05/us-mideast-crisi-iraq-violence-idUSKBN0NQ29I20150505?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

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Two rockets fired into Baghdad's heavily fortified 'Green Zone' (Original Post) Bosonic May 2015 OP
That isn't good. nt okaawhatever May 2015 #1
the shrubs/darth's legacy heaven05 May 2015 #2
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
2. the shrubs/darth's legacy
Tue May 5, 2015, 07:01 PM
May 2015

12 years later, turmoil, grief, death still abounds. Yes it is america's "worst president" and his PNAC Bushco killers fault.

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