Bomb attacks kill 5, wound 18 in Iraq

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

A pair of bomb attacks at a hospital and a market place killed five people and wounded at least 18 others in Iraq on Sunday, police and hospital officials said.

Also Sunday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with his Cabinet for the first time since the U.S. delivered what it called its final reply to Iraqi requests for changes to a draft security agreement that would keep U.S. forces in the country until the end of 2011.

A bomb hidden beneath a pile of garbage exploded near a public health clinic packed with patients in a market in Khalis, some 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Baghdad, police said.

... The violence comes two months after the U.S. handed control of the province over to the Iraqis and shows that militants have still not given up the fight despite setbacks at the hands of U.S. and Iraqi forces.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/06/international/i112557S49.DTL&tsp=1

[hunter78]

1. Oh boy

Just when you thought the "surge" had wiped out violence.

[SpiralHawk]

2. I never thought the surge accomplished much more than a brief, paid-off respite

...when the republicon big-buck quiet money stops flowing, then all bets are off.

Commander AWOL Bush, VP Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney, and their war-profiteering oil-munitions-mercenary republicon cronies, long ago lied America into Massive-Needless-Dumb, Mega-Trillion TaxMoneyBuck War FAIL.

No doubt because of pathetically amoral and wrongheaded republicon strategery and decidership, the FAIL is locked-and-doomed in FAIL-Forward Mode.

[struggle4progress]

3. Spate of Attacks Leaves 12 Dead Across Iraq (NYT)

By SAM DAGHER
Published: November 9, 2008

... The deadliest attack was in the town of Khalis in Diyala Province, northeast of Baghdad. Five civilians were killed and 10 were wounded when a bomb was detonated in the path of a car carrying the district’s top two political and military officials, according to a provincial security official ...

A roadside bomb killed one person in Baquba ...

.. one person was killed when a suicide car bomber blew himself up in the path of a police patrol, according to the police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim al-Jubouri. Another person was killed by second roadside bomb ...

In Anbar Province, a female suicide bomber struck a hospital on the outskirts of Falluja, killing a woman, according to the provincial police chief, Maj. Gen. Tariq al-Youssef ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/world/middleeast/10iraq.html