Green Zone Infiltrated, Journo's Hotel Bombed

From ABCNEWS:

"U.S. authorities raised the security alert in the heavily guarded Green Zone after an improvised bomb was found in front of a restaurant there, officials said Thursday."

This is an important development: previous attacks on the Green Zone had only come from random mortars lobbed over the barriers.

Meanwhile, attacks around the Green Zone perimeter continue to make life - let alone journalism - difficult for reporters:

"Two rockets have slammed into a hotel complex in central Baghdad. At least one rocket hit the Sheraton hotel, which lies in a compound with the Palestine hotel - both used by journalists and other foreign workers...

The Sheraton and the Palestine hotels, which are heavily-protected by US forces and ringed by high concrete walls, have often been targeted by mortar fire. They stand across the Tigris River from the heavily-fortified Green Zone - the compound housing the interim Iraqi government and the US and British embassies.