Reuters has a "last throes" summary of incidents just from today in Iraq

Reuters has a "last throes" summary of incidents just from today in Iraq. Scary stuff

FACTBOX-Developments in Iraq, March 12
12 Mar 2006 16:13:04 GMT

Source: Reuters

March 12 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents and political developments in Iraq as of 1610 GMT on Sunday.

U.S. and Iraqi forces have been battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government since U.S. troops toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.

A wave of sectarian violence since the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine on Feb. 22 has killed hundreds.

* Asterisk denotes new or updated item.

SECURITY INCIDENTS

* BAGHDAD - At least 40 people were killed and 95 wounded in three car bombs that exploded almost simultaneously in two markets in the Shi'ite Sadr district of Baghdad on Sunday. Police dismantled a fourth bomb in the same area, they said.

* LATIFIYA - Gunmen ambushed and killed a local football player (Mohammad Najah) in Latifiya 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, local police said.

* BAGHDAD - Two civilians were killed and four wounded when a mortar round landed on a paint shop in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Eight bodies were found with their hands tied and gun shot wounds to the head in Rustamiya, a suburb in eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Six people were killed and 14 wounded, including policemen, when a roadside bomb exploded as a U.S convoy passed by in southern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed two police officers in separate incidents in Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two soldiers were killed and four wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Five soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi army patrol in eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad received at least twenty bodies overnight, some with gun shot wounds, a source in the hospital said.

DHULUIYA - Gunmen killed two army officers who work in the Joint Coordination Centre in Dhuluiya, 40 km (25 miles) north of Baghdad, the Joint Coordination Centre of Dhuluiya said.

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

BAGHDAD - The trail of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants resumed on Sunday in the heavily fortified green zone. Saddam and seven others are charged with crimes against humanity in connection with the execution of 148 villagers from Dujail after an assassination attempt on his life there in 1982.

BAGHDAD - Iraq's president said on Sunday he was bringing forward the first session of parliament to March 16 from March 19, the date of a Shi'ite Muslim religious festival.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12731514.htm
via:http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006/03/connecting-some-feingold-bush-censure.html

Perhaps the brass and tinware bedecked boob was thinking of Iowa rather than Iraq.

:eyes:

speaking in terms of a geological time frame. So even if the "last throes" take 30 years, long by us flawed human time measuring ways, it's a pebble in the ocean of time of the age of the earth (30 years out of 4004 years)...