Iraq bombers one step ahead of US

[justinsb]

Iraq bombers one step ahead of US
By Jon Leyne
BBC News


The bombing of a mosque in the Iraqi town of Musayyib is the deadliest single attack in Iraq for months.

The weekend began on Friday with a day-long series of car bombs in Baghdad that claimed at least 22 lives.

The attacks came as the US was claiming some success in reducing the number of car bomb attacks.

Their campaign was focused in Baghdad, where the security forces have been running an offensive called Operation Lightning for a number of weeks.

more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4691181.stm

[FloridaPat]

1. Why would the Iraqi insurgants bomb a mosque? Sounds like a good

way to get killed by all their friends and relatives. Then there are all the stories of the US military planting bombs in cars and taxis.

[justinsb]

2. I think they are trying to provoke

a sunni vs. shia civil war (or at least certain factions are).