Bomb spurs Australian embassy move

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- Australia has relocated its diplomatic staff in Iraq to inside a U.S. military base in Baghdad after the embassy was attacked by a suicide bomber earlier this month.

The three-person mission will stay at Camp Victory until new accommodation is found inside the highly fortified "green zone" in Baghdad.

Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told media the embassy staff had been moved after the January 19 car-bomb attack appeared to have been a targeted strike on Australia's presence in Iraq.

Two Iraqis were killed and two Australian soldiers were slightly injured in the attack on the building which was located in a residential Baghdad suburb.

Story: http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/australia.embassy/

[billyoc]

1. Would that be the green zone

where the *American* embassy was just rocketed,
or some other, safe one? :eyes:

[leftchick]

2. Australia abandons Baghdad embassy (moves to Green Zone)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1292141.htm

The Federal Government says officials in Iraq will not return to the embassy that has been the scene of a number of recent insurgent attacks.

In London overnight Foreign Minister Alexander Downer announced that embassy staff will move into the US-controlled Green Zone.

Mr Downer says the decision to move the Australian embassy into the Green Zone was made on January 19, the same day the embassy was attacked by a suicide bomber.

He says criticism from Opposition Leader Kim Beazley prompted him to confirm the move.

[Ganja Ninja]

3. It's a sign of how well things are going.

You sure as hell couldn't tell from watching the media yesterday.

[Roland99]

4. But, according to Allawi, the terrorists have been defeated