You say stolen ids, I say given or sold ids – the green zone’s security has been blown big time and there will most likely be a lot more carnage to follow. Sure nice to know we are being betrayed left and right there. From Fox News:

WASHINGTON — Documents captured in recent fighting in Baghdad included two identity cards for access to the fortified Green Zone, which contains Iraqi government headquarters, and an ID card for access to the U.S. Embassy, the Pentagon says.

The area where the documents were captured — just west of the Green Zone — has been a stronghold of Sunni extremists linked to Al Qaeda, said Army Col. Steven Townsend, commander of 3rd Stryker Brigade that led the operation.

Townsend, speaking to reporters at the Pentagon on Monday in a videoconference from Baghdad, did not mention the discovery of the identity cards. That information was provided separately by Pentagon officials after he spoke.

The adequacy of security in the Green Zone, also known as the international zone, has recently come into question, particularly in the aftermath of the April 12 suicide bombing in the Iraqi parliament building’s dining hall. One lawmaker was killed in the blast, which was claimed by an Al Qaeda-led amalgam of Sunni insurgents.

About two weeks before that attack, two suicide vests were found unexploded in the Green Zone. Less than a week before that, a rocket attack in the restricted zone killed an American contractor and an American soldier.

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Good heavens, I am sooo glad that could NEVER happen here. Why, just imagine someone might get into a nuke plant and give away its plans and secrets. Oh, wait – that already happened last week. I feel so safe.