Iraq Insurgents Attack U.S. Headquarters

BASSEM MROUE September 11, 2007 05:40 PM EST
BAGHDAD — Insurgents fired rockets or mortars Tuesday at the sprawling garrison that houses the headquarters of American forces in Iraq, killing one person and wounding 11 coalition soldiers, the U.S. command said.
The command said the person killed was a "third country national," meaning someone who is not an American or Iraqi. Most troops stationed at Camp Victory are American but other coalition soldiers are based at the complex near Baghdad International Airport. No further details on the attack were immediately released.
The attack occurred as U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and the top commander Gen. David Petraeus testified before Congress for a second day on the situation in Iraq since President Bush's decision to send 30,000 reinforcements to stem sectarian violence.

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I find the last sentence of the second paragraph rather interesting, "No further details on the attack were immediately released." Actually I haven't heard anything about this on the mainstream news networks. Why hasn't this been reported and covered more thoroughly? Could it possibly be because things are not as good as General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker would have us believe?
General, you're in Washington DC telling us the surge is working while your headquarters is being attacked. If insurgents can get close enough to attack your headquarters, I would have to say that security can't be that good for the rest of the city, let alone the country. How can you then say that the surge is working?
A General was duped into duping us into this war in the first place. Now we have another General trying to dupe us into staying in Iraq longer. Please don't give us the, 'stay the course' party line. Use your own common sense. You can see what is really happening. We need to give Iraq back to the Iraqis.