http://www.pjstar.com/stories/061507/NAT_BDGPA718.052.php
Friday, June 15, 2007
Baghdad under security lockdown
Rockets rain on Green Zone during visit by top U.S. envoy
BAGHDAD (AP) -
A citywide clampdown emptied Baghdad's streets of all vehicles
Thursday in attempts to hold off what authorities dread: a storm of
Shiite attacks in revenge for the bombing of one of their main
shrines.
The tactic appeared to keep a lid on widespread violence, but
extremists fired shells into the city's protected Green Zone during a
visit by the State Department's No. 2 official.
The barrage of rockets and mortars included one that hit on a street
close to the Iraq parliament less than a half hour before Deputy
Secretary of State John Negroponte passed nearby.
The attack again showed militants' resilience - including their
ability to strike the heavily protected zone - despite a U.S.-led
security crackdown across the city that began exactly four months ago.
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How's that "surge" comin', Georgie?
Harry
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