surge update - Blasts shake Baghdad's Green Zone

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Two blasts have occurred near Baghdad's Green Zone outside Iraq's foreign ministry, as John Negroponte, the US deputy secretary of state, was preparing to hold a press conference about his visit to Iraq.

At least one person was killed and five others were wounded in the blasts, the police said.

An Iraqi military officer said one soldier was wounded in the blasts that went off in quick succession.

The Green Zone is a fortified compound of government and diplomatic offices, where journalists had gathered on Tuesday for a news conference by Negroponte and Hoshiyar Zebari, the Iraqi foreign minister.

Negroponte is in Iraq for talks on the handover of security to Iraqi forces.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/10/200810795441378602.html

[endarkenment]

1. Blackbridge: lord executioner of the Washington Consensus.

He is up there in the pantheon of living modern mass murderers.

[ensho]

3. agree - he and North - where ever they go death follows

nt

[ensho]

2. this news should be spread around as McC is all about the surge working

nt

[ensho]

4. kicking - some one should ask the McC people about the surge

and these blasts aimed at the visiting criminal