Reply #3: Mortars tell a different story

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Mortars hit Baghdad Green Zone
Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:20 PM EST

By Waleed Ibrahim

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda militants killed at least eight members of a neighborhood police unit in southern Baghdad on Thursday, raking them with machinegun fire from a stolen Iraqi army vehicle, police said.
Separately, police said insurgents fired 10 mortar bombs at Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone just before dusk, in attacks coinciding with Thanksgiving.

A Reuters witness said he saw what appeared to be a body hanging from a damaged minibus in the zone, which houses the U.S. embassy and many government ministries. Police said there were casualties, but had no details.
The spike in violence ran against the trend of a sharp drop in attacks in recent months...

SOURCE: http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-11-22T212034Z_01_L06676676_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-COL.XML&archived=False