Blast Kills 8 at Iraqi Parliament Building

[SWJED]

13 April Washington Post - Blast Kills 8 at Iraqi Parliament Building by Karin Brulliard and Robin Wright.

A suicide bomber detonated a vest packed with explosives inside Iraq's parliament building Thursday, killing at least eight people in the worst-ever breach of security in the heavily guarded Green Zone.

Elsewhere in the capital, a truck bomb destroyed a bridge over the Tigris River, killing at least one person and severing a link between the now Shiite-dominant eastern side of Baghdad with the Sunni-dominant west...

[tequila]

Video here.

Eyewitness account by reporter here.

[goesh]

-do you think that will sway the Pelosi/Murtha/Reid crowd in their rush to cut and run?

[wm]

As a last great act of defiance in WWII, the Germans launched the Ardennes Offensive, AKA Wacht am Rhein. One of the goals of the German effort was to split the Allies and get the US and UK to stop fighting. Then the Reich could have focused its full attention on the Eastern Front.

Could yesterday's events in Baghdad be akin to that last German effort to snatch a victory? Knowing that a sharp divide in US support for the war exists, it makes sense that the insurgents might "shoot their wad" to try to get us to bail out of the country.

[marct]

Hi WM,

Could yesterday's events in Baghdad be akin to that last German effort to snatch a victory? Knowing that a sharp divide in US support for the war exists, it makes sense that the insurgents might "shoot their wad" to try to get us to bail out of the country.

Just a guess, but I'd have to say no. They may have used a valuable asset to deliver the attack but I'm pretty certain that that isn't the bulk of their resources . My gut guess is that his is probably an escalation of the fight between AQI and other groups.

Marc

[tequila]

Interesting that Sunni lawmakers appeared to be the target - or at least they appear to have been the ones killed. Or perhaps the bomb was in a satchel, and Sunnis just sat down next to it?

The fact that suicide vests were discovered prior to this attack, and suspicious packages detonated afterwards, suggests that something much bigger was planned - or perhaps is still to be attempted.