Two rockets hit Baghdad's Green Zone, car bombs kill 10

[Capt. Obvious]

Source: Reuters

Rockets hit 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 10 people, police and medical sources said.

One soldier was killed in the rare attack on the Green Zone, which is likely to heighten concerns about Iraq's ability to protect strategic sites as security deteriorates.

The car bombs struck mostly Shi'ite districts, including Shurta, in the southwest of Baghdad, where four people were killed in a crowded market, the police and medical sources said.

A car bomb in south Baghdad's al-Maalif neighborhood killed two people and three died in a blast in the Bayaa quarter. In Taji, north of the capital, an explosion near a police patrol claimed another life, police said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/04/us-iraq-violence-idUSBREA1312320140204

[grahamhgreen]

1. Meanwhile Iraq oil money builds Dubai.

[hibbing]

2. Thanks George!

I'm afraid this will go on for the rest of my lifetime. All the while the idiot son paints dogs and his cabal of war criminals are called upon by the corporate media for their expert commentary on foreign affairs...barf.

Peace

[another_liberal]

3. One thing we can rest assured about . . .

History will charge all of these deaths to our account. Iraq was broken in our name, and we will own every tragedy which happens there for years to come.

[Nihil]

4. "likely to heighten concerns about Iraq's ability to protect strategic sites"

Such as the Oil Ministry no doubt?