The bad news? A suicide car bomber penetrated the Green Zone on Tuesday.
The good news? We caught the guy!
Suicide Bomber Stopped After Penetrating Baghdad's Green Zone
Meanwhile, Officials Say No. 2 Al Qaeda Leader in Iraq Killed
By Jackie Spinner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 27, 2005; 2:54 PM
BAGHDAD, Sept. 27 -- A car bomber penetrated the heavily fortified Green Zone in the center of the capital on Tuesday but was stopped by U.S. Marines at an "internal checkpoint" before he was able to detonate the vehicle, the military said.
U.S. troops destroyed the explosive-rigged car and detained the bomber, a military spokesman said.
The details are still hazy, but that guy might have been seconds away from killing dozens of Headquarters-type people.
Update: more details from the NYT:
Bomb Kills 7 Police Recruits in Hub of Iraq's Insurgency
(last para of article)
One potentially deadly attack was foiled Tuesday in Baghdad. American soldiers in the heavily fortified Green Zone stopped a sedan and discovered that it was heavily laden with explosives, military officials said. The soldiers detained the driver and detonated the car on site, just a few hundred yards from the convention center, where Iraq's Parliament was about to meet.
So the bomber came within a few hundred yards of blowing up Parliament.