Saturday, March 31, 2007
More of the same and an update in Iraq.
The NY Times brings the latest goings on in Iraq and a revision to the total from Tuesday's truck bombing.
The Iraqi government on Saturday gave its first official reckoning of the truck bombing Tuesday in the northern city of Tal Afar, putting the death toll at 152 people, a number about double that in early reports.152, makes the numbers for today look almost normal.
Sectarian violence continued around Iraq on Saturday, when 27 people were killed in shootings and car bombings and 10 bodies were found in Baghdad, according to the Interior Ministry. In Gabala, near Hilla, Shiite militiamen killed two people at a Sunni mosque and then burned Sunni stores in retaliation for the killing of the brother of a Mahdi Army militia leader. The Iraqi Army intervened to stop the attack on the mosque, said a member of Scorpion Brigade, a commando unit in Babil Province.Another deadly day in another deadly month in Iraq.
The Associated Press count of U.S. military deaths for the month was 81, including a soldier who died from non-combat causes Friday. Figures compiled from officials in the Iraqi ministries of Defense, Health and Interior showed the Iraqi military toll was 44. The Iraqi figures showed that 165 Iraqi police were killed in March. Many of the police serve in paramilitary units....And in DC the arrogant little peckerwood in the White House wants more of this and throws a hissy fit when the adults try to stop him.
...At least 83 American forces died in January and 80 in February, according to the AP tabulation.
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