Instability and death count rising
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
by Mary Dejevsky
06/01/06
How much more lethal can the Iraq war become? About 1,000 Iraqi deaths every month, a U.S. death toll of more than 2,000 and nine British soldiers killed in the past month. Monday's roadside bomb in Baghdad, which killed two journalists, critically injured another and took the lives of two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter, showed that being embedded with troops now offers scant protection. Hopes that an elected Parliament and transferred sovereignty would cause the violence to decline have proved vain. Five months after landmark elections, Iraq's government is still incomplete. Even if it had a full lineup of ministers, it is hard to see it restoring law and order now that conflicting interests have run amok...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/272245_iraq01.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Mary Dejevsky
06/01/06
How much more lethal can the Iraq war become? About 1,000 Iraqi deaths every month, a U.S. death toll of more than 2,000 and nine British soldiers killed in the past month. Monday's roadside bomb in Baghdad, which killed two journalists, critically injured another and took the lives of two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter, showed that being embedded with troops now offers scant protection. Hopes that an elected Parliament and transferred sovereignty would cause the violence to decline have proved vain. Five months after landmark elections, Iraq's government is still incomplete. Even if it had a full lineup of ministers, it is hard to see it restoring law and order now that conflicting interests have run amok...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/272245_iraq01.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 2. Jun, 16:21
