Iraq parliament plans to exit Green Zone

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament will start holding sessions outside the U.S.-protected Green Zone in the fall, the deputy speaker said Tuesday.

The 275-member legislative body currently meets in a heavily guarded convention center inside the Green Zone, a sprawling maze of concrete barriers and checkpoints in central Baghdad.

Deputy parliamentary speaker Khalid al-Attiyah told lawmakers they will move to the Saddam Hussein-era parliament building for the next legislative term, which is due to begin on Sept. 1.

The National Assembly building that was used by the Iraqi parliament under Saddam is in the Allawi district, about 500 yards from the blast walls that form the perimeter of the Green Zone on the west side of the Tigris River.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[hobbit709]

1. The rats are jumping ship.

[ElectricGrid]

4. get a grip folks. OMG.

[Javaman]

8. A grip on what? nt

[whistle]

2. Dessert the U.S. leave our troops exposed as targets, remember Tet Offensive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiW5FXs1n6M

[Ian David]

3. Do they know something we don't? n/t

[YDogg]

5. this should end well.

:crazy:

[louis-t]

6. Ruh-oh.

An attempt to distance themselves from the U.S. military that I fear will not go well.

[leftchick]

7. I hope the occupiers have their helipads ready

for the quick exit. Who could have predicted? :eyes: