News today from Bizarro Iraq in which the surge didn’t work:
BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber wearing an explosives vest killed nine people and wounded 12 others in Baghdad’s central Karrada district, a police official said. Another police source said nine people were killed and 17 wounded.
* BAGHDAD – A parked car bomb killed three people and wounded 15 outside a restaurant in the Qahira district in northern Baghdad, police said.
* BAGHDAD – Twelve bodies were found in various districts across Baghdad on Saturday, police said.
BAGHDAD – Three blasts killed one person and wounded four in Nahda district in central Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD – A roadside bomb wounded seven people travelling in a minibus in the southern Baghdad district of Doura on Saturday, police said.
MUQDADIYA – Four human heads were found on Saturday in Muqdadiya, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police and hospital officials said.
DIYALA PROVINCE – One U.S. soldier died after a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Diyala Province on Saturday, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD – Gunmen killed Ismail Abbas, the leader of the Awakening Council in Shaab district, outside his home in northern Baghdad, police said.
(h/t Atrios)
