Reply #58: That's been tried a couple of times.

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At one point, the Iraqi Army was about to post insurgents posing as guards all around the Green Zone and they were going to make a coordinated attack. When the plot was caught and stopped, it was "one signature away" from happening.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1724316

BAGHDAD, Iraq Mar 14, 2006 (AP)— Security officials foiled a plot that would have put hundreds of al-Qaida men at guard posts around Baghdad's Green Zone, home to the U.S. and other foreign embassies as well as the Iraqi government, the interior minister told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

A senior Defense Ministry official confirmed the plot, and said the 421 al-Qaida fighters involved 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.

Interior Minister Bayan Jabr, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, said the al-Qaida recruits were one bureaucrat's signature away from acceptance into an Iraqi army battalion whose job it is to control the gates and main squares in the Green Zone. The plot was discovered three weeks ago.