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19 Jun 2007 01:49 pm

The Last Throes Of The Occupation?

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Bill Roggio reports on the Battle of Baquba. I'll link to what I can, but from experience, I've learned it takes days to get a clear idea of what is going on in the fog of war. We should certainly pray that the push against al Qaeda operatives in Diyala helps, at least, take out a few. I'm not optimistic it can do much more. In a sign of what we're up against, another gruesome mass murder took place at a Shiite mosque today and the daily numbers of tortured murdered Sunni corpses turning up on the streets of Baghdad seem to be back in the 30s.

(Photo: Smoke billows from the site of an explosion in at a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad, 19 June 2007. At least 75 people were killed when a truck bomb exploded outside the mosque, Iraqi security and hospital officials said. By Sabah Arar/AFP/Getty.)

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