http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/28/iraq.main/index.html
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27359266.htm
http://rawstory.com/:Hagel
Rice: I didnt expect Iraq to be this tough
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Baghdad was on virtual lockdown Friday as a tough new curfew ordered everyone off the streets of the Iraqi capital and five other cities until 5 p.m. Sunday.
That restriction didn't stop someone from firing rockets and mortar rounds into the capital's heavily fortified International Zone, commonly known as the Green Zone. One slammed into the office of one of Iraq's vice presidents, Tareq al-Hashemi, killing two guards.
An American government worker also was killed in rocket and mortar attacks Thursday in the International Zone.
U.S. warplanes pounded Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood Friday, killing four people and wounding five.
Other planes from the U.S.-led coalition bombed Shiite militia positions overnight in the southern city of Basra, a British military spokesman said.
US airstrike kills at least 4 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD - A U.S. helicopter fired a Hellfire missile during fighting in a Shiite militia stronghold of Baghdad Friday, killing at least four people as deadly clashes broke out in Iraq's oil-rich south for the fourth day.
American jets also dropped bombs overnight in Basra in the first use of U.S. air power in the southern oil port since the Iraqi government launched a crackdown against Shiite militias there earlier this week.
Defying a curfew in Baghdad, extremists also lobbed more rockets or mortars against the U.S.-protected Green Zone.
Friday, 28 March 2008
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So much for the surge and how well it's working! It continually baffles me how we as Americans think we can bring about, coerce, or change the problems of Iraq with an element there believing that suicide bombings and murders will ensure them a choice seat in paradise?!
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