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Three American civilians in the Zone were seriously wounded in Wednesday's attacks. Throughout the day and into the evening the sound of mortars landing inside the compound boomed through Baghdad, a reminder of the militia's power to ratchet up its attacks if the cease-fire continues to fray...
Against the dull thud-boom of rocket hits and ascending plumes of black smoke, Baghdad's fortified Green Zone rumbled with running soldiers and intermittent cries of "duck and take cover!" The area, where the U.S. embassy compound is located, is taking the worst bombardment in almost nine months. The American-backed Arabic news network al-Hura reported 18 rocket hits in and around the Green Zone on Thursday alone. Since Sunday, dozens have rained down on the compound, which houses both government and diplomatic offices...
...crackling gunfire of AK-47s could be heard near the eastern edge of the Green Zone Thursday morning, and rockets landed in the neighborhoods of Salhiyya, Karada, and al-Allawi. An Iraqi police source told TIME that a car bomb had also been detonated outside a hospital in Andalus Square in central Baghdad. In the district of Khadamiya, a joint American and Iraqi force fought a gun battle Thursday afternoon against armed militants. And local media reported that unidentified gunmen had kidnapped government civilian spokesman for security, Tahsin al-Sheikli, from his home in the al-Amin district of Baghdad...
Indeed, though the rockets that hit the Green Zone are believed to have emanated from the Mahdi Army Sadr City stronghold, the U.S. embassy would not say where they were originating from "for security reasons." It is not known whether the U.S. military was moving against the perpetrators of the attack. It is known, however, that Iraqi police have clashed with Sadrists in Sadr City...
Meanwhile, Maliki traveled to Basra on Monday in a show of force against the "criminals." He has given the armed fighters 72 hours to surrender their weapons, a deadline that runs out this weekend. In the Green Zone in Baghdad, Senior British Military Representative Lieutenant Colonel Michael Shearer told TIME that the Iraqi operation is aimed at quelling criminal activity, and that the city has never been under the "control" of militant groups...