Psyche, Science, and Society

Guerillas penetrate Green Zone

April 12th, 2007

A massive blast in a restaurant in the Iraqi Parliament building, located inside the heavily fortified Green Zone shows that no part of Iraq is safe.

An explosion rocked a restaurant inside the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad on Thursday while lawmakers were having lunch, wounding dozens of people, a parliamentary official and a Reuters witness said.
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“We heard a huge explosion inside the restaurant. We went to see what was going on. We saw lots of smoke coming from the hall, with people lying on the ground and pools of blood,” the parliamentary official told Reuters by telephone from the scene.

He said he did not know if lawmakers were among the wounded or if anyone had been killed.

The parliament building is located in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. …

“There was a big blast, I saw the fire. There were many, many wounded. Windows were shattered,” said the witness who was lightly wounded in the arm.

Not much information on casualties is available as of this writing.

One could hope that the Iraqi politicians, now that they know they are not safe in their cocoon, would get down to negotiating a compromise alternative to occupation accompanied by all-out civil war. More likely, however, is that even more parliamentarians will spend virtually all their time out of the country, returning only to vote to turn over the country’s petroleum to foreign companies, as demanded by the United States

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