<p><a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/security-gains-from">Security backsliding</a> may be accelerating. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/world/middleeast/02iraq.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin">Twin suicide bombings</a> today, right in the bustling markets that the U.S. likes to promote as symbols of progress. Both bombings occurred in the very heart of Baghdad — itself the very heart of the surge, and right when the Maliki government turned the Iraqi Army’s attention to <a href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/882/re34.htm">Mosul</a>. Looks like we won’t have to wait for the end of the surge to witness the End of the Surge.</p>
At Least 64 Die in Baghdad
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