AP:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — The interior minister said Tuesday
authorities had foiled an al-Qaida plot that would have put
hundreds of its men at critical guard posts around Baghdad’s
heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the U.S. and other foreign
embassies as well as the Iraqi government.
A senior Defense Ministry official said the 421 al-Qaida
fighters were actually recruited to storm the U.S. and British
embassies and take hostages. Several ranking Defense Ministry
officials have been jailed in the plot, the official said on
condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the
information….