surge update - At Least 15 Killed in Bombings Across Iraq

[spanone]

BAGHDAD, Sept. 28 -- Explosions across Iraq on Monday killed at least 15 people and wounded many others, police said, further testing the ability of Iraqi armed forces to keep the country safe.

A suicide bomber driving a water tanker loaded with explosives blew himself up in the Anbar province near a police station, killing seven policemen and wounding 10. The explosion in Ramadi, a former insurgent stronghold 70 miles west of Baghdad, burned at least half a dozen cars parked nearby and damaged several buildings.

In Diwaniya, a town 100 miles south of Baghdad, a bomb planted in a minibus exploded, killing at least three passengers and wounding two.

In western Baghdad, two bombs exploded in the Sunni neighborhood of Ghazalieh, killing three people, including the commander of an army battalion. Security officials said that at least 28 people were wounded.

In the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a region that remains Iraq's most violent, where many insurgents are believed to have regrouped after they were driven from Baghdad and other provinces, a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded, killing two policemen.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/28/AR2009092802909_pf.html

[Buzz Clik]

1. surge? Come on, spanone. Are you really doing this?

The troop numbers in Iraq are in decline.