Parliament attack work of terrorists countering US plan: Rice

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

Parliament attack work of terrorists countering US plan: Rice 4 minutes ago



WASHINGTON (AFP) - A deadly suicide bombing inside Iraq's parliament complex Thursday was the work of "terrorists" trying to counter the new US security effort in Baghdad, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.

"It's obviously again the terrorists and those who wish to stop the Iraqi people from having a future that would be based on democracy and stability," Rice said after meeting with Senator John McCain (news, bio, voting record).

"There will be good days and bad days," Rice said, speaking of the new US security plan which has involved deploying thousands more US troops to Baghdad in recent weeks to counter insurgent attacks and sectarian violence.

"But the commanders are carrying out their responsibilities and working to try to make the population more secure," she said.

"This is still early in the process and I don't think anybody expected that there would not be counter-efforts by terrorists to undermine the security progress that we're trying to make," she said.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070412/pl_afp/iraqunrestparliament_070412134859

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Interesting tidbit from The War Room/AP:


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The Associated Press is calling the attack "the clearest evidence yet that militants can penetrate even the most secure locations" and a "stunning security breach." But it seems that U.S. and Iraqi officials weren't entirely surprised by the incursion. As the AP notes, security officials had taken the unusual step, earlier in the day, of using bomb-sniffing dogs to check people entering the Parliament building.

In late March, a U.S. soldier and a U.S. contractor were killed in a rocket attack inside the Green Zone. And earlier this month, a U.S. military briefer acknowledged that two suicide-bomber vests had been found inside the Zone. "This is a challenging security environment," Rear Adm. Mark Fox said at the time. "And whether you're in the international zone or whether you're in the rest of Baghdad, we are committed to providing security for the people of Iraq."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/04/12/bomb/index.html

[endarkenment]

1. "There will be good days and bad days"

No actually there are bad days and worse days and horrible days. The Iraqi people haven't had a good day in four years, thanks to you and the rest of the criminal cabal. Go buy some shoes.

[missTheBigDog]

2. Wow....

That kool-aid must taste real good right now, condy.

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Burying the lede: Sleepers inside the Green Zone.

The Green Zone has been infiltrated. I wonder when we're going to see a Munich-style hostage situation.

[rodeodance]

4. McCain is the Bush III

[madrchsod]

5. gee condo if you guys can`t provide security

with the many check points to get into the emerald city you guys are in deep shit...

[sinkingfeeling]

6. "It's obviously again the terrorists..." or maybe it was one of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis

were were shouting 'US Out of Iraq' the other day.

[Sal316]

7. Wasn't the last talking point "The surge is working"?

Someone get me a whiteboard so I can keep up with how many times they change their story.

Reminds me of that mythbusters quote "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

[MaineDem]

8. I don't think she has a clue

Has there ever been a more ineffective SoS? I doubt it.

[Javaman]

9. Recent conversation between the security team in the green zone...

Commander: damn it! how did this happen? We had bomb sniffing dogs and everything?

flunky: Bomb sniffing?

Commander: yes, bomb sniffing. Whyyyyyy?

flucky: uh oh. (gets down cast look) I thought you said you wanted bum sniffing dogs.

[maddezmom]

10. another interesting tidbit security scanner broken at entrance to GZ, only hand searched

But a security scanner that checks pedestrians at the entrance to the Green Zone near the parliament building was not working Thursday, Abu Bakr said. People were searched only by hand and had to pass through metal detectors, he said.

The brazen bombing was the clearest evidence yet that militants can penetrate even the most secure locations. Masses of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers are on the streets in the ninth week of a security crackdown in the capital and security measures inside the Green Zone have been significantly hardened.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[datadiva]

11. Okay let me get this straight

On the good days you get to breathe and on the bad days you die. That about it Condi? Evil, evil woman.

[Magleetis]

12. It takes

a terrorist to know a terrorist. There will be no stable democracy in Iraq.

[Seldona]

13. War is peace.

An increase in deaths is a GOOD thing, right Condi? The corpses strewn about Baghdad and elsewhere are signs of PROGRESS, right? You sick @*#*$!

I don't see how any civilized person could have voted for these ghouls. I really don't.