This is in today's GDN.. And they want want us to fly to Iraq.
BAGHDAD: A series of blasts in Baghdad killed 95 people and wounded 536 as Iraq suffered its bloodiest day in 18 months. Six blasts struck near government ministries and other targets at the heart of Iraq's administration, weeks after US combat troops withdrew from urban centres, thrusting Iraq's security forces into the lead role.
"This operation shows negligence, and is considered a security breach for which Iraqi forces must take most of the blame," Baghdad's security spokesman Major General Qassim Al Moussawi said.
The government this month had ordered most blast walls in Baghdad to be removed within 40 days, a sign of faith in its troops and police.
In one blast, a massive truck bomb close to a security checkpoint leading to the heavily fortified Green Zone blew out the windows of the nearby foreign ministry, sending shards of glass through busy offices, killing at least 60 people.
The explosion was powerful enough to shatter windows of Iraq's parliament building in the Green Zone.
Another truck bomb in Baghdad's Waziriya district near the finance ministry killed 28 people. Part of a raised highway near the building collapsed.
Another explosion was close enough to Reuters' offices in central Baghdad's Karrada district to burst open windows and doors. The Baghdad provincial government building came under mortar attack, police said, as did Salhiya district in central Baghdad, home to army bases and a television station. Mortars also landed near the UN compound in the Green Zone, startling UN workers marking the sixth anniversary of the bombing of their previous headquarters.
Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki called for a security review, saying the attacks were aimed at "raising doubts about our armed forces, which have proven themselves capable of confronting terrorists".
The US said it planned to go ahead and withdraw forces from Iraq over the next two years despite the "senseless bombings designed to wreak havoc".