GREEN ZONE IN BAGHDAD UNDER MORTAR ATTACK

President Bush and FOX NEWS are avoiding any mention of it, but the Green Zone in Baghdad has come under a heavy mortar attack.

We have updated reports on other acts of violence in Iraq as the wave of chaos takes a dramatic upturn.

Any reporter or news outlet who continue to say things are getting better in Iraq is simply LYING to the American public.

Commentary by Bill Corcoran, editor of CORKSPHERE

Reuters: Baghdad's Green Zone hit by barrage of blasts (part 1)Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone was hit by a sustained barrage of rocket or mortar bomb fire early on Sunday and emergency sirens could be heard in the Iraqi capital's government and diplomatic compound.


03/23/08 Reuters: Baghdad's Green Zone hit by barrage of blasts (part 2)It was not immediately clear where most of the missiles landed or if there were any casualties after an apparent attack lasting about 15 minutes..A large plume of thick black smoke could be seen rising from one area of central Baghdad's Green Zone03/23/08

These incidents of violence also took place in Iraq on March 23

03/23/08 Reuters: Gunmen killed police lieutenant in central Baquba,
Gunmen killed a police lieutenant and wounded two policemen in an attack on a checkpoint in central Baquba, 65 km (42 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

03/23/08 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 4 Iraqi soldiers while near Tuz Khurmato
A roadside bomb killed four Iraqi soldiers while they were on patrol near Tuz Khurmato, 70 km (43 miles) south of the northern city of Kirkuk, the Iraqi army said.

03/23/08 reuters: Gunmen kill Iraqi Colonel in Abu Saida
Gunmen killed Colonel Akram Awad al-Omairi, commander of a rapid reaction unit of Balad Ruz, outside his home in the town of Abu Saida in Diyala province, police said.

03/23/08 Reuters: Three bodies found in Baghdad on Saturday
Three bodies were found in different districts across Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

03/23/08 Reuters: Suicide bomber attacks house of tribal leader - 5 killed
A suicide car bomb hit the house of tribal leader Hussain al-Shatab, killing five people, including his brother, and wounding 11 others on Saturday east of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Shatab survived.

03/23/08 Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 3 policemen in eastern Baghdad
A roadside bomb blew up near a police patrol, wounding three policemen in Zayouna district, in eastern Baghdad, police said.

03/23/08 AFP: US air strike kills six in Iraq
A US helicopter gunship fired on and killed six Iraqis near the central Iraq city of Samarra on Saturday, an anti-Qaeda leader and the American military said.

03/23/08 newarkadvocate: Heath man injured in explosion in Iraq
A Heath soldier injured in Iraq on New Year's Eve 2006 had surgery last week to remove a piece of shrapnel that had been above his left eye for almost 15 months. Todd Henry, 40, son of Heath City Councilman Cledys Henry, had the copper piece...

03/23/08 AFP: US says 12 members of suicide cell killed in Iraq
US forces raided a "suicide bombing network" in Iraq's restive Diyala province on Sunday, killing 12 men, six of whom who had shaved their bodies in preparation for becoming human bombs, the American military said.

03/23/08 AFP: Armed men kill 6, wound 16 south of Baghdad
Several armed men travelling in three cars opened fire in the mixed Zafaraniyah neighbourhood of south Baghdad, killing at least six people and wounding 16, the officials said.

03/23/08 Reuters: Katyusha rocket hits east of Baghdad, kills 5 people
a Katyusha rocket struck a residental building in the largely Shiite Al-Kamaliyah neighbourhood of east Baghdad at around 11:00 am (0800 GMT), killing at least five people and wounding eight, security officials said.

03/23/08 AP: Suicide bomb kills 13 Iraqi soldiers
A suicide car bomber killed at least 13 Iraqi soldiers and wounded dozens more people in Iraq's north on Sunday...Police said at least 13 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 42 people wounded — 30 soldiers and 12 civilians — in the attack. Mosul