BOOM! – explosion of "progress" in Iraq following Saddam's capture

[pruner]

Truck Bomb In Baghdad

(CBS/AP) Saddam Hussein loyalists rioted in Baghdad, ambushed a U.S. patrol in Samarra, stormed the office of a U.S.-backed mayor in Fallujah and battled American troops in Ramadi as cities in Iraq's `Sunni Triangle' region seethed over the ex-dictator's capture.

The violence continued early Wednesday, when a truck loaded with explosives rammed into a small bus and exploded Wednesday, killing as many as 22 people, including everyone who was on the bus.

Two cars nearby were destroyed in the blast.

The blast occurred at about 5 a.m. in the city's al-Bayaa district. Another explosion was reported near a railway station in al-Yarmouk neighborhood. More details were not immediately available.

As soldiers fought off angry protesters and guerrilla attacks Monday night and Tuesday, the 4th Infantry Division said it had snared a leader of the insurgency and 78 other people in a raid north of Baghdad, not far from where Saddam was captured three days earlier.

A roadside bomb wounded three American soldiers in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, and a pro-Saddam demonstration in the northern city of Mosul ended in violence, with a policeman killed and a second injured.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml

[thebigidea]

1. I'm sooooo fucking tired of "we're making good progress"

its such an empty, CEO-type comment.

[bowens43]

2. Increased attacks are a sure sign

that the resistance is crumbling......right?

[IndianaGreen]

3. they are a sign that we are "safer"

another 5 points for Bush in the polls!

:puke: