Explosions Slam Baghdad's Green Zone

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http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,139913,00.html

Associated Press | June 21, 2007

BAGHDAD - A series of mortars or rockets slammed into the U.S.-controlled Green Zone on Thursday, and an official said at least one round struck a parking lot used by the Iraqi prime minister and his security detail.

The barrage occurred a day after the U.S. military acknowledged "an increasing pattern of attacks" against the sprawling complex on the west bank of the Tigris River despite a security crackdown now in its fifth month.

A huge plume of black smoke billowed into the sky and helicopters buzzed overhead after about nine blasts occurred in quick succession around 10 a.m.

At least one mortar round struck a parking lot used by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his security detail, an official from the prime minister's office said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information.

The U.S. Embassy confirmed there were rounds of indirect fire, the military term for rockets or mortars, but said it could not immediately provide details such as where they struck.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. It's only a matter of time before the GZ is overrun...

If they can get close enough to shell the GZ daily, then it's only a matter of time before the GZ collapses into chaos and is overrun.:(

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. They're going to have to abandon that green zone place soon.

After a while they will be holding out in those remote permanent forts we have built.
The forts are hard to sneak up on.

[Middle finga]

3. I hope they have contingency plans drawn up

and helipads on the roof tops because it seems we are going to have to make a Vietnam exit real soon. We might not have to worry about congress ending this war after all.