[lbo-talk] a day in Iraq

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Violence Sweeps Baghdad; U.S. Gunship Fires on Crowd
>By Ibon Villelabeitia
>
>BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. helicopter gunship fired at Iraqis milling 
>around a burning U.S. vehicle in a Baghdad street Sunday during fierce 
>battles in which witnesses and officials said 13 people had been killed and 
>61 wounded.
>
>Elsewhere in the city, at least seven car bombs and various outbreaks of 
>violence killed nine Iraqis, and insurgents fired over a dozen mortar bombs 
>or rockets around the U.S.-occupied Green Zone compound.
>
>It was one of the heaviest barrages in the capital in months. "We've seen a 
>tremendous increase in the number of attacks," Brigadier General Erv 
>Lessel, a U.S. military spokesman, told Reuters....

I'm sure there are many reasons why this is not at all like the Tet 
Offensive, so I won't make the comparison.

Carl