No Shit, Sherlock
US admits Green Zone is no longer safe as suicide bomber strikes at heart of governmentUS officials admitted last night that the bombing of the Iraqi parliament shows that not even the heavily fortified Green Zone is safe any more, despite the security crackdown launched earlier this year in the Iraqi capital.
American and Iraqi security officials were last night investigating how a suicide bomber evaded a ring of security checks and blew himself up in the assembly's cafe, killing three MPs and five other people and wounding more than 20.
About 100,000 US and Iraqi soldiers are on the streets of the capital as part of the troop "surge" begun two months ago; while security inside the Green Zone has been tightened following the recent discovery there of two suicide bomb belts.
But after the deadliest attack ever in the Green Zone, US officials warned that nowhere is safe in Baghdad. "The international zone is not safe, it is just safer than the rest of the city," said Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Garver. "Enemies of the country are trying to drive a wedge between the people and the government." In Washington the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, said: "We know that there is a security problem in Baghdad. This (crackdown) is still early in the process and I don't think anyone expected that there wouldn't be counter-efforts by terrorists to undermine the security presence."
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However, it is Al Qaeda that has been messing things up in Iraq currently, not the shia or sunni members of the community and that pisses me off!! I think that we should stay in Iraq to really control them!!
Posted by: yeah | April 12, 2007 09:31 PM
Well, the problem is that it is the invasion that has led to the rise of Al Qaeda in Iraq since that orginization did not exist in that country prior to the war. And the only reason why that terrorist group has found sanctuary among the sunnis is because of the American presence in that country and their opposition to it. Now the only thing that continued presence in that country will produce is more failures.
Posted by: onye0004 | April 12, 2007 11:37 PM