Rockets kill 50 as Iraq eyes US handover

Rockets slammed into homes in Baghdad just before nightfall on Thursday, killing 50 people and wounding 200, a senior Interior Ministry official said.

The Interior Ministry official put the toll at 50 dead and said hospitals were struggling with some 200 wounded, a figure in line with other police sources. No official could say where the Soviet-made Katyusha rockets came from, nor who fired them.

The mystery attack was the deadliest after several bloody days in Baghdad as militants defy a major security crackdown.

A US force including heavy armour and dozens of vehicles rolled into Diwaniya, where Iraqi troops this week battled militiamen loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Rockets-kill-50-as-Iraq-eyes-US-handover/2006/09/01/1156817061038.html

if true this indicates that the blowback from the Lunacy in Lebanon is hitting Iraq. IEDs are bad, but if the insurgency can start putting Katyusha and better class rockets into combat the green zone might have to change colors.

If the US believes they can easily disarm their militia they are high.