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Even the secure "Green Zone" is no longer secure. The NYT reports that 5 Killed as 2 Bombs Explode Inside Baghdad Green Zone.

Five people were killed today when two separate explosions were set off inside the heavily-controlled Green Zone in central Baghdad, an American military spokesman said.

Three Americans were among the dead, the spokesman said.

The first blast was set off by a suicide bomber near a cafe. The second occurred in or near a bazaar, or market area, a spokesman for the First Cavalry Division, Maj. Philip J. Smith, said by telephone from Baghdad. It was unclear whether that blast also involved a suicide bomber.

This only shows how deep the insurgency goes. Explosives can be smuggled into the green zone in spite of the very tight security. Iraq has indeed become a desert quagmire, an arid Vietnam. It is now apparent that a vast majority of the Iraqis' consider the U.S. to be an occupation force and the Allawi is seen as an American puppet. If this doesn't remind you of Vietnam you must simply not be old enough to remember.