Tally Shows Surge in Iraqi Car Bombings Under Intermi Govt - USA Today

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BAGHDAD (AP) — Car bombs echo across Baghdad and a constellation of cities around Iraq nearly every day, inflicting slaughter and billowing oily smoke, a reminder to all who see or hear them that the country's insurgents can strike almost anywhere.
Vehicles packed with explosives, often detonated by suicide attackers, have become one of the insurgency's most lethal weapons. An Associated Press tally shows there have been at least 181 of them since Iraq's interim government took over June 28 — just a handful at first but surging to a rate of one or more a day in recent months.

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"They wouldn't dream of going at it head-to-head with us, because they know we would crush them. Instead they use dirty tactics," said Marine Cpl. Jarred Crummley of the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion at Camp Fallujah west of Baghdad. "And our rules of engagement are so restrictive that we can't do what we would like and just light up every living thing in the area."

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frightening quote.

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1. About that quote at the bottom...

Do they even TEACH tactics anymore? How can this guy be so utterly clueless?

For Christ's sake, he's griping about 'campers'! Did he learn battle tactics by playing Quake III?

Doomed.