> 700 rocket and mortar attacks in Baghdad and the Green Zone in April

[Botany]

Repost from yesterday just in case anybody from the media is surfing D.U.
looking for a story. So how is that surge working?

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27352657.htm

Barrage of rockets fired at Baghdad's Green Zone

27 Apr 2008 15:07:08 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, April 27 (Reuters) - A barrage of about a dozen rockets struck near Baghdad's fortified Green Zone diplomatic and government compound on Sunday evening in what appeared to be one of the biggest strikes in weeks.

The rockets could be heard whistling past from the east of the Iraqi capital as they flew in the direction of the riverside compound and exploded, Reuters correspondents on the opposite river bank said.

The strikes took place during a heavy sandstorm. U.S. forces normally use helicopters to retaliate against fighters who target the Green Zone, but sandstorms prevent the helicopters from flying, letting fighters strike with impunity.

U.S. and Iraqi forces say Shi'ite militiamen have fired more than 700 rockets and mortars over the past month, many aimed at the Green Zone and most fired from the capital's Sadr City slum, stronghold of the Mehdi Army militia of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

[Breeze54]

1. The escalation of the occupation was never going to work...

I don't care how many times they keep saying it is... it's quite evident that it is not!

U.S. Confirmed Deaths
Reported Deaths: 4052

http://icasualties.org/oif/

Military Deaths By Year/Month

Total -------4052

4-2008 ++++ 40