WP: Violence in Iraq Spreads to North

[qanda]

Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, October 12, 2003; Page A28

KIRKUK, Iraq -- A sharp rise in attacks on U.S. forces around this normally tranquil city is part of a concerted effort to expand violent resistance deep into northern Iraq, U.S. commanders and Iraqi officials say.

A handful of guerrillas and financiers arrived in this ethnically mixed oil center and activated a local opposition that had lain dormant for months, according to the commanders, officials and residents. The newcomers mounted nightly hit-and-run operations culminating in three blasts -- a mortar attack on a U.S. base, a grenade explosion at city hall and a booby trap explosion beside a Humvee outside town -- in the space of just two hours Tuesday night.

The following night two Iraqi policemen were killed when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded at a checkpoint that U.S. soldiers had left shortly before.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13638-2003Oct11.html

[Nottingham]

1. More evidence that Iraq is a MESS

:bounce:

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. bush proclaimed there was progress in Iraq!

Just wait till the regime deploys its Turkish personnel assets in the north to liquidate the Kurds.

Upbeat

Positive

Praise the Regime

Obey the Regime

[bemildred]

3. Yep, them damned outside agitators are just about everywhere.

:puke: