Re: meanwhile back in Iraq...

[Sandwichman <lumpoflabor@xxxxxxxxx>]

The next six months should prove the turning point, as Thomas Friedman
would say.

On 7/22/06, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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!
>
> --
> Jim Devine / "You need a busload of faith to get by." -- Lou Reed.


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