Green Zone ‘mortar’ actually car bomb
An explosion Monday in Baghdad's Green Zone that Iraqi officials at first attributed to a rocket that had landed in a parking lot was in fact a suicide car bomb that detonated at the entrance to the parliament building and killed five people, officials revealed Tuesday. The admission that a suicide car bomber had penetrated […]Sahar Issa reports for McClatchy Newspapers:
An explosion Monday in Baghdad's Green Zone that Iraqi officials at first attributed to a rocket that had landed in a parking lot was in fact a suicide car bomb that detonated at the entrance to the parliament building and killed five people, officials revealed Tuesday.
The admission that a suicide car bomber had penetrated the fortified Green Zone, the first suicide attack there since April 2007, sent a wave of concern across the capital about the abilities, and loyalties, of Iraq's security agencies.
The attack targeted the speaker of parliament, Osama al-Nujaifi, according to al-Nujaifi's spokesman. The speaker was uninjured.
