More details emerge on last weeks Green Zone mortar attack - Ambassador Crocker's office hit

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062102098.html?hpid=topnews

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Wednesday's confidential Situation Report over there said that the security office in Baghdad "reports 9 to 10 rounds of IDF" -- indirect fire, meaning mortar rounds or rockets -- "have hit the Embassy Baghdad compound. One round caused damage to the Embassy's north wing. There are no reported casualties.

"Further to Watch Alert 1241, Embassy Baghdad reports Ambassador Crocker's office window was damaged by one IDF round, sending shrapnel into his office. The Ambassador was in the room at the time of the attack, but there were no injuries."

We're told the windows were blown out and glass shards were in the office. But this, for Crocker, is par for the course.

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Incoming mortar and rocket fire has become a daily occurrence of late in the Green Zone. The U.N. staff has moved to temporary quarters that are a bit safer.

Last weeks report:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-iraq_postjun22,1,4951250.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

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Meanwhile, as many as nine mortar shells slammed into Baghdad's Green Zone on Thursday morning, including one that reportedly landed in the parking lot used by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. There were no reports of injuries.

[babylonsister]

1. I can just see Crocker cowering in the corner though, FWIW, I would be, too. nt