A bloody message from Iraq: nowhere is safe...

[cal04]

The day a suicide bomber struck at the heart of Iraq's democracy
Patrick Cockburn

Nowhere is safe. Insurgents struck in the heart of the Green Zone yesterday, one of the most heavily defended places in Baghdad. The symbolism - and the bloody message - was clear with this attack on the home to the US-imposed democracy.

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The Green Zone bombing was not only an assault on democracy. It was intended to undermine President George Bush's troop "surge", which is denounced as a sham by so many Iraqis.

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The bombing is likely to increase scepticism that the two-month old American campaign to get control of Baghdad, the "surge", is achieving very much.

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The sensitivity of the US and the Iraqi government to the breach in security was apparent because all television cameras and video tapes showing the immediate aftermath of the blast were confiscated and handed to US authorities

The only footage to be shown was by al-Hurra channel, shot seconds after the attack, it showed a dusty hallway with people screaming for help. One man is shown slumped in the dust.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2444473.ece

[liberal renegade]

1. freedom's on the march......

[babylonsister]

2. Must stifle that news; don't want anyone seeing anything 'bad' going on. nt

[qwlauren35]

3. Those of us who READ have picked up on it.

I'm dismayed (but resigned) at the idea that a lot of news doesn't register with the general American public unless it comes with a picture...

THEY BOMBED THE GOVERNMENT LUNCHROOM!!!! I'm sorry, but those 5 words should be able to stand in for pictures...

We are a country in need of drastic change, from the citizens as well as government. Both sides seem to operate too often with closed eyes.