Badger translates from AlQuds alArabi:
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 neurotic Iraqi wife, who works for the U.S. in the Green Zone, somewhat confirmed this as do other sources.
Where are the "western" media on all of this? Self censoring because the U.S. military demands such?
Via Cole we learn that Maliki fired several thousand of the official forces because they rebelled against orders to attack Sadr forces. He replaces these with loyal folks from the Badr brigades. This points to another round of inner Iraqi Shia conflict. I don’t expect that results will be different from the last attempt.
Islam Online reports of a bad mood in the "Green-Reddish Zone" and on what is to come:
The fortified area has recently come under stronger, bolder rocket and mortar attacks.
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A senior militant for Sadr militia seemed to claim credit."We are just making tests. Much more damage can be caused by our weapons," he said.
While Sadr called for inner Iraqi peace he asked his people to continue to attack "the greater enemy". But there may also be other groups involved in bashing the Green Zone.
Attacks on the Green Zone will continue and continue to get more precise from now on.
The recent days in Baghdad had dust storms that disabled the U.S. to counter-attack mortar firing positions from the air. But even if the weather allows helicopters to counter mortar positions, this always takes some time. Mortars can easily be set up, fired and moved elsewhere within a few minutes.
They can be only countered by denying the opponent all suitable firing locations. Aside from massive aerial bombing of densely inhabited civil neighborhoods, the U.S. has no way to achieve that within Baghdad. It will therefore do massive aerial bombing of densely inhabited civil neighborhoods.
Of course the resistance knows exactly where is what in the Green Zone. How many of the Iraqi Green Zone workers had relatives killed due to U.S. induced violence? Might they have marked some maps?
Ambassador Crocker will now likely be in the Al Faw palace next to the Baghdad airport. The U.S. has named that area Camp Victory. That will turn out to be a misnomer.
That place, like all other U.S. bases in Iraq, has been infiltrated and will come under precise mortar and rocket attacks when the resistence is ready for a bigger push.
This summer in Iraq will be quite hot for all sides of this conflict.