Makin' progress
Baghdad blasts mock US claims of Iraqi progress -- following death of Zarqawi and visit by Bush, leaders fail to bring end to cycle of violence.
The renewed violence comes as [Smirky McLiar] was seeking to take advantage of the death of Zarqawi to convince a sceptical American public that the situation in Iraq was starting to improve. However, a new CNN poll showed 54 per cent of Americans still believe the war was a mistake, and the political pressure on Mr Bush is growing in the run-up to crucial mid-term elections for the US Congress.
At least 41 people have been killed and 100 injured in a string of attacks in and around Baghdad, with many of the casualties reported to be civilians.
The US army is still hunting for our two missing soldiers, who may have been kidnapped by insurgents.
Gunmen seized 10 workers from a bakery Sunday in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, while a car bomb exploded near a university in the northern city of Mosul, killing a woman and wounding 19 other people, police said.
Horror show reveals Iraq’s descent: “We have turned into a zoo. What level have we sunk to, to kill people in such a manner and hardly to notice any more?” A morgue’s grim scenes testify to a disintegrating nation.
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