WP: Suicide Bomber Stopped After Penetrating Baghdad's Green Zone

[DeepModem Mom]

Suicide Bomber Stopped After Penetrating Baghdad's Green Zone
Meanwhile, Officials Say No. 2 Al Qaeda Leader in Iraq Killed

By Jackie Spinner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 27, 2005; 2:54 PM


BAGHDAD, Sept. 27 -- A car bomber penetrated the heavily fortified Green Zone in the center of the capital on Tuesday but was stopped by U.S. Marines at an "internal checkpoint" before he was able to detonate the vehicle, the military said.

U.S. troops destroyed the explosive-rigged car and detained the bomber, a military spokesman said.

Although the breach did not result in any deaths or injuries, it raised alarm about how the bomber was able to enter the most secured compound in Iraq. The Green Zone houses the U.S. Embassy and the transitional Iraqi government. Part of the complex was the governmental base of deposed leader Saddam Hussein. Under the former Iraqi president, the area was off-limits to ordinary Iraqi citizens, who drove or walked by quickly to avoid being harassed by his governmental security forces....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092700775.html

[leftchick]

1. tick tick tick....

:nuke: it is only a matter of time.

[Big Kahuna]

2. Was he British?

[grytpype]

3. The fact that we stopped them PROVES we are winning!

See, our alert personnel over there in the Green Zone were able to catch on to the bomber after he had been drivin around awhile... so the bomb dint go off.

[ElectroPrincess]

5. Shhh! Right now we're supposed to only say "We're Makin' Progress"

Didn't you get Ken's Memo?!? :puke:

[grytpype]

4. Uh, RECOMMEND do you think?

A suicide bomber caught driving around in the Green Zone... could have killed a hundred or so HQ people... you think that's an important story? I sure do.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. They now know how to get in/ that they can get in.

Time is on the side of the opposition. They know it.

[Journeyman]

7. I can't get out of my head something the Afghani spokesman said. . .

Can't remember his name, nor his position or title, but he was the one interviewed quite a lot during the opening stage of the assault, the short guy who wore glasses. I remember he looked directly at the camera and talked about how, at some time in the future, the Afghanis would gain the upper hand against all invaders.

"The future is not far," he said, "for those who wait for it.

[NYC]

8. Was it Abdulla Abdulla, the foreign minister?

He was interviewed a lot.

[leesa]

9. Was he British or American?

[Javaman]

10. This is called the first attempt after a probe...

If this guy got in, how many others that weren't carrying bombs walking around and casing the place?
This is the first of many.
Bank on it.

colossal racist failure*.