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Terrorists Bomb Iraqi Parliament

UPDATE – MSNBC Breaking News: U.S. spokesman says eight people killed in Iraq parliament attack

This is well inside Baghdad’s heavily-fortified and supposedly highly-secure Green Zone.

BBC: Explosion at Iraq parliament cafe

A blast hits a cafeteria in the Iraqi parliament, killing at least two MPs and injuring at least 15 other people.

Pajamas Media asks if Sunnis were targeted.

Fester at NewsHog discusses Symbolic vs. Systemic Attacks

Earlier today, a major bridge was bombed:

The bombing of the Sarafiya bridge, one of the main arterial bridges in Baghdad, had been condemned by the speaker of parliament a short time before the explosion in his own building.

The bridge, one of the main linking the two halves of the capital across the Tigris river, was partially demolished by a huge truck bomb.

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