surge update - At Least 75 Are Killed in Two Attacks in Iraq

At Least 75 Are Killed in Two Attacks in Iraq

By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
BAGHDAD — At least 75 people were killed and 120 wounded in two explosions in Iraq on Thursday that shook a quiet residential Baghdad neighborhood and a restive city north of the capital where Iranian tourists were attacked.

Also on Thursday, a major leader of the Sunni insurgency, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, was captured in Baghdad, according to Major General Qassim Atta, the Army official responsible for security in the capital. Mr. Baghdadi is the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group of Sunni militant forces believed to include Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.

The overall level of violence in Iraq is at its lowest since the American invasion in 2003. But a series of recent attacks, highly organized and carried out under tight security, have raised worries that Baathist and jihadi militants are regrouping into a smaller but still lethal insurgency seeking to reassert itself as American troops reduce their presence on the ground in advance of their full withdrawal in 2011.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/world/middleeast/24iraq.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

I remember when the news would lead with these Iraq bombings. Seems like we don't care anymore. Really sad.

which brings us back to the torture issue