surge update -Baghdad Bombs Kill 23, Police Say

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BAGHDAD (AP) -- At least 23 people were killed and dozens were wounded Monday when two car bombs, including one driven by a suicide attacker, blew up in Baghdad, police said.

Neither of the attacks took place in parts of the sprawling city where visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was located.

In an unrelated incident, the U.S. military reported finding a grave containing 14 people, believed to be members of the Iraqi security forces and thought to have been executed by al-Qaida in Iraq.

In the deadlier of the two attacks in Baghdad, a parked car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded 43 in central Baghdad's Bab al-Mudham area. The car was parked on a road leading to the nearby Housing and Municipality Ministry, police said. The dead included one police officer, while another four were wounded. The district is a commercial area on the eastern side of the Tigris River.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Iraq.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

[KharmaTrain]

1. It Was Never A "Surge"...At Best It Was A "Lull"

Time for Democrats to define the charade going on in Iraq for what it is. The US Military bought some time by buying off the Sunnis...and surely the Shiites are sitting back and looking the other way. The Kurds are quietly being attacked by the Turks and the Shiites and Sunnis have carved up their turf...just waiting for the time the U.S. withdraws...or if we don't go on our own, we will be forced to shoot our way out.

I still find it ironic that Armadinejad is welcomed in Baghdad with all sorts of open arms, while gov. georgie booooosh jr. has to sneak in in the dead of night.