US Embassy moving?

[seemslikeadream]

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2008/04/alquds-alarabi-confirms-greenzone.html

Reliable sources in the Green Zone said a large number of authorities have departed from the area, since it has been exposed to a large number of attacks, including deaths and injuries to a number of Americans and Iraqis, and the sources say the attacks are being carried out in a very accurate way, and this means that those carrying out the attacks, mostly armed Shiite groups, are in possession of precise details and maps of the Green Zone area.

The Green Zone has been exposed during the recent period of six days of fighting in Iraq, to a heavy downpour of rocket and mortar attacks during this whole period of days, with frequent warning sirens and American soldiers and employees take refuge in shelters during the attacks, which last a considerable period of time. The sources said some of the attacks include up to 10 shells consecutively in a single attack, causing terror among the Americans and the Iraqi employees, without the government or the American forces being able to do anything to stop it. And this has led many of the American and Iraqi authorities to leave the Green Zone, the Americans going to the Baghdad Airport, where there is a huge American base, and the Iraqis going to other locations, or to the north of Iraq, where there is a secure and stable atmosphere.

[tekisui]

1. But, not before obscene war-profiteers make off like bandits.

[frogcycle]

2. deja vu all over again

When will we see the helicopters lifting people from the roof?

[flor de jasmim]

3. Wait, this is the embassy that's as large as Vatican City?

Our tax dollars at work.... again.

:mad:

[annabanana]

4. naw.. that one isn't finished yet.. It's full of slave labor from the Philippines. . n/t

[crikkett]

5. Sounds like it's being evacuated.

Does this mean the terrorists are winning?

[babylonsister]

6. And what do ya know, not a word on m$m. Sounds very dangerous

over there; I hope all those diplomats are enjoying the taste of what the troops have had to put up with.

[flashl]

7. Diplomats were forced to go to Iraq, now we know why they refused assignment

Iraq postings anger US diplomats
Oct. 2007

Hundreds of US diplomats have protested against a government move to force them to accept postings in war-torn Iraq.

About 300 angry diplomats attended a meeting at the state department, at which one labelled the decision a "potential death sentence".

If too few volunteer, some will be forced to go to Iraq - or risk dismissal, except those exempted for medical or personal hardship reasons.

BBC

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Why not? Didn't we, the taxpayers, just build the dump for something like $1 billion? Let's build

another! Put it all on the tab!