2 Baghdad car bombs kill 56, injure 127

[cut.your.crap]

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/World/Iraq

Yesterday they were bragging about 2 days of no bombing (at least in Baghdad, because Kirkuk doesn't count).

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Looks like the honeymoon is over. Back to biz as usual.

[lonestarnot]

2. This headline is about what I expected.

Iraq bombing deathtoll jumpin every hour.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/18/iraq.main/index.html

http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/92475212/index.html

[Contrary1]

3. Did anyone actually believe

that these guys weren't altering their plans and regrouping? Oh yeah...our government.

Thanks, Dubya.

[rodeodance]

4. AP: Deadly Baghdad blasts send grim message (tour just prior to blastS)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070218/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AseHfJrP8rHpws_SZUzzB5qs0NUE
Deadly Baghdad blasts send grim message

By BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer 2 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants struck back Sunday in their first major blow against a U.S.-led security clampdown in Baghdad with car bombings that killed at least 63 people, left scores injured and sent a grim message to officials boasting that extremist factions were on the run.

The attacks in mostly Shiite areas — twin explosions in an open-air market that claimed 62 lives and a third blast that killed one — were a sobering reminder of the challenges confronting any effort to rattle the well-armed and well-hidden insurgents.

Instead, it was the Iraqi commanders of the security sweep feeling the sting.

Just a few hours before the blasts, Lt. Gen. Abboud Qanbar led reporters on a tour of the neighborhood near the marketplace that was attacked and promised to "chase the terrorists out of Baghdad." On Saturday, the Iraqi spokesman for the plan, Brig. Gen. Qassim Moussawi, said violence had plummeted by 80 percent in the capital.