Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Surge fails to impress the opposition
And the details can be found courtesy of McClatchy reporter Scott Canon with contributions from Mohammed al Dulaimy on the scene.
A body suspected of being one of three missing American soldiers was pulled from the Euphrates River on Wednesday, and the U.S. military announced the deaths of two Marines and seven soldiers in separate attacks Tuesday, bringing to 80 the number of American service members who've died in Iraq so far this month.So more US troops are being killed and the number of Iraqis being killed is rising to pre Surge levels. Can someone think of a reason why we are still in Iraq other than George and Dick have an unquenchable thirst for the blood of others?
Five Iraqi civilians were killed and 17 wounded in a morning gun battle just outside the walled-off Green Zone, the central Baghdad refuge for U.S. military headquarters and Iraqi government offices. Thirty unidentified corpses were found throughout the capital.
Outside Baghdad, a suicide bomber exploded at a bustling cafe in Mandali, a bustling town on the Iranian border, killing 22 people and wounding 13.
The mayhem comes as statistics that McClatchy Newspapers compiled suggest that the violence, which had dropped in the first weeks after the U.S. began adding troops to Baghdad, is creeping up again.
Statistics on the numbers of car bombs, roadside bombs, people wounded and people killed show that May is likely to be the bloodiest month so far this year. The number of anonymous bodies found on Baghdad's streets, victims of what U.S. officials call sectarian murders, is averaging 22.5 a day, up nearly 50 percent from April and March and equal to the rate in January, before the troop buildup began.
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