Thursday, June 21, 2007
Green Zone has been elevated to the Orange Zone
At least nine mortar rounds or rockets exploded inside the fortified Green Zone at about 10 a.m. Thursday, in what's become a near-daily demonstration of the limitations of the U.S.-led security crackdown and militants' resolve to rain terror on even the most protected area of Baghdad.And the "Surge-On" General Petraeus is already writing his September report about how things are getting better, with a little help from Gen. Odie Cologne..
The U.S. military announced the deaths of 14 American troops over the past two days, including five slain Thursday in a single roadside bombing in Baghdad that also killed four Iraqis.
In the northern city of Kirkuk, 18 civilians were killed and more than 70 wounded when a gunman rammed a truck bomb into a municipal building in the Suleiman Bek area, destroying the building and damaging neighboring homes.
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