U.S. Gov't Office in Iraq Attacked

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Iraq.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

ovember 11, 2006
U.S. Gov't Office in Iraq Attacked
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 4:42 a.m. ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The U.S. government's office in central Iraq came under mortar fire early Saturday, an attack that touched off a blaze in part of the complex, Iraqi police said. There was no immediate word on damage or casualties.

In the western city of Tal Afar, two suspected insurgents were killed during an overnight search for those behind a suicide bombing Friday that killed six Iraqi soldiers in the western city of Tal Afar.

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Nine of the 10 mortar bombs fired landed inside the complex, police Capt. Muthanna Khalid Ali said.

..more at link...

[lapfog_1]

1. For a second there, I thought it was inside the green zone

in which case I was thinking "shit, we're toast. We'll have to fight our way OUT of Iraq and back to Kuwait"... but no, it was some office 60 miles south of Baghdad.

[bemildred]

2. Mortars in the back of pickups.

Nine out of ten hits.
We are so screwed.