Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Headline
Here's is the headline of Juan Cole's post today regarding Iraq:
33 Dead in Civil War
7 US Troops Killed over Weekend
Basra in Chaos as Tribes Feud
I could put stuff up like this daily. The tragedy that is Iraq just keeps on going.

What is interesting in this particular headline is Basra. Basra is in southern Iraq and is dominated by Shiites. It has been a relatively quiet and peaceful part of Iraq. It now appears that security in southern Iraq has collapsed as well and that fighting is really widespread throughout the country:
MOSUL: Guerrillas detonated a bomb in the northern city, killing one policeman and wounding 2 others.

RAMADI: Heavy fighting between local guerrillas and US troops left 8 dead and 9 wounded.

BALAD RUZ - Guerrillas shot down 4 primary school teachers in Diyala Province an hour's drive from Baquba.

WAJIHIYA: Guerrillas east of Baghdad fired a mortar shell that landed on a civilian home, killing a seven-year-old girl and wounding 7 members of her family.

BAGHDAD: Five members of a family in the capital were shot dead.

MAHAWEEL: Guerrillas detonated a bomb that wounded 3 policemen and left a civilian bystander dead.

KARBALA: A policeman who had earlier been abducted showed up dead in the Shiite shrine city on Monday. (Two ex-Baathists were also assassinated.)

AMARA: A mortar attack on a British base wounded one soldier seriously in the leg and inflicted minor injuries on three others.

BASRA: Tribesmen of the Marsh Arab Karamisha [Gramsha] tribe killed 11 policemen in and around Basra. They may have been taking revenge for the killing of one of their clan chiefs by persons dressed as special police commandos, a unit heavily infiltrated by the Badr Corps of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
It will take Americans more than a generation to live down what we have helped create in Iraq.
Written at 12:41 PM by Greyhair.
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