meanwhile back in Iraq...

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

from the WaPo's on-line SLATE  magazine:

Friday, 7/21/06: >In Iraq, the [Washington POST] notes that police in
Baghdad found "dozens of corpses," and a car bomb exploded next to an
ice-cream vendor, which meant yesterday ranked as "one of the quietest
days in one of the year's bloodiest weeks, with no single reported
attack in Iraq claiming more than 13 lives."

The NYT flags a new Iraqi government report concluding that 1,100
families fled their homes just last week, and that 162,000 people have
filed for relocation aid since the Shiite shrine was bombed in
February. Everybody seems to agree that the numbers are almost
certainly an undercount since plenty of people forced to move don't
register.

A front-page NYT piece looks at how bakeries in Baghdad have become a
sectarian target. They're usually operated by Shiites. In one Sunni
neighborhood that had 11 bakeries, one is still open—the only one that
was Sunni-owned. <

today's issue: nothing is happening there, obviously!

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Jim Devine / "You need a busload of faith to get by." -- Lou Reed.