surge update - May Is Iraq’s Deadliest Month Since September

[spanone]

BAGHDAD — An American soldier and four Iraqi civilians died Wednesday when a bomb exploded on a Baghdad street as a United States military patrol drove past, officials said.

The death of the soldier, whose name was not released, brings to at least 20 the number of American soldiers who have died this month, the most since September 2008, when 25 service members died.

In recent months, there has been an uptick in the number of attacks against Iraqi civilians and United States forces, leading to concerns that insurgents are regrouping before the June 30 deadline for American combat troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/world/middleeast/28iraq.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

[Oregone]

1. Hey, no one ever said living in an empire is free