Goodness, what happened to the wonderfully successful Republican "surge"?

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03/26/08 Xinhua: 3 Americans wounded in attack on Baghdad's Green

Zone Three American citizens working for the U.S. government were

wounded by an indirect fire attack on Baghdad's heavily fortified

Green Zone on Wednesday, U.S. embassy said.

03/26/08 AFP: Shiite fighters clash again with Iraqi forces in Basra

Fighters loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr clashed again in Basra

Wednesday, a day after running battles in Iraq's southern oil hub

killed seven people, an AFP reporter and witnesses said.

03/26/08 Reuters: 12 people killed, 77 wounded in clashes in Sadr City

Twelve people have been killed and 77 wounded in clashes between Iraqi

security forces and the Mehdi Army in Baghdad's Sadr City district

since Tuesday, said Ali Bustan, general director of the health office

for eastern Baghdad.

03/26/08 Reuters: Mortar fire kills 3, wounds 6 in Baghdad's Karrada

district Mortar attacks killed three and wounded six in Baghdad's

Karrada district.

03/26/08 Reuters: Mortar fire kills 4 people, wounds 12 in

southwestern Baghdad Mortar attacks killed four people and wounded 12

in Baghdad's southwestern district of Risala, a Mehdi Army stronghold.

03/26/08 Reuters: Two people killed, 12 wounded in clashes in Kut

Two people were killed and 12 wounded in clashes between Mehdi Army

members and Iraqi security forces in Kut, 175 km (105 miles) southeast

of Baghdad, police said. Police said the militia had taken control of

seven neighbourhoods.

03/26/08 Reuters: U.S. airstrike kills five Iraqi civilians

A U.S. airstrike killed five Iraqi civilians, including a judge, and

wounded 10 in the northern town of Tikrit on Wednesday, Iraqi police

said. Tikrit is 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad.

03/25/08 bakersfield: Burned soldier leaves hospital

U.S. Army Pfc. Jamin Moore suffered burns on more than 60 percent of

his body Dec. 4 when the Humvee he was riding in was struck by a

roadside bomb. Three fellow soldiers died in the explosion.

03/25/08 AP: IDs awaited on remains of 3 bodies found in Iraq

Authorities are awaiting identification of the remains of three bodies

in Iraq, a U.S. law enforcement official said today, a day after the

remains of two kidnapped contractors were identified.

03/25/08 CSM: Across Iraq, battles erupt with Mahdi Army

"The cease-fire is over; we have been told to fight the Americans,"

said one Mahdi Army militiaman, who was reached by telephone in Sadr

City. This same man, when interviewed in January, had stated that he

was abiding by the cease-fire...

03/25/08 AP: Iraqi leaders face grave Shiite crisis Iraq's leaders

faced their gravest challenge in months Tuesday as Shiite militiamen

loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr battled for control of

the southern oil capital, fought U.S. and Iraqi troops in Baghdad and

unleashed...

03/25/08 NPR: Basra Violence Strains Cease-Fire Agreement

Violence between armed militias and Iraqi security forces erupted in

Basra on Tuesday. Alex Chadwick talks to Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington

Post Baghdad bureau chief, about who is behind the fighting and what

it means for a cease-fire agreement ...

03/25/08 AFP: Sadr militia battle troops in four Iraqi cities

Moqtada al-Sadr's militiamen battled troops in four Iraqi cities on

Tuesday, including the capital, as the hardline Shiite cleric

threatened a countrywide campaign of civil revolt. Heavy clashes broke

out between Sadr's Mahdi Army fighters...

03/25/08 Reuters: 12 people were killed in clashes in Basra

At least 12 people were killed in clashes in Iraq's southern oil hub

of Basra on Tuesday, police said, after the Iraqi security forces

launched a major operation against armed groups. Basra is 550 km (340

miles) southeast of Baghdad.

03/25/08 Reuters: Three policen kidnapped in Basra Gunmen kidnapped

three Iraqi policemen guarding a police training centre, police said.

03/25/08 Reuters: al-Sadr followers seized control of five districts

in Kut

Armed followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr seized control of

five districts in the southern Iraqi town of Kut on Tuesday, police

sources said. Kut is 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad.

03/25/08 Reuters: Six bodies found in Mosul

Six bodies were found in different districts of Mosul, police said.

03/25/08 AFP: Baghdad Green Zone hit by rockets

Insurgents on Tuesday slammed at least four rockets into the

heavily-fortified Baghdad Green Zone, the seat of the Iraqi government

and the US embassy, Iraqi and US officials said.

03/25/08 Reuters: Journalist's son abducted in eastern Mosul

Gunmen abducted the son of an official of the journalists' union,

Ghanim Ismail, outside his house in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles)

north of Baghdad, police said.

03/25/08 Reuters: Gunmen kill morgue employee in Mosul

Gunmen killed an employee of Mosul's morgue in a drive-by shooting

just outside his house in western Mosul, police said.

03/25/08 Reuters: Roadsdide bomb kills 1, wounds 8 in central Baghdad

Two roadside bombs killed one person and wounded eight others in Bab

al-Sheikh district of central Baghdad, police said.

03/25/08 Reuters: Policeman wounded in clashes in Aziziya town

Eight or ten policemen were wounded in clashes in Aziziya town, north

of Kut, police said.

03/25/08 Reuters: Six policemen kidnapped in northeastern Baghdad

Gunmen seized two police vehicles and kidnapped six policemen in the

Maamil district of northeastern Baghdad, police said.

03/25/08 Reuters: Fighting erupts between rival rival Shi'ite factions

Fighting also erupted between followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada

al-Sadr and supporters of a rival Shi'ite faction in and around

Baghdad's Sadr City Shi'ite slum, police said.

03/25/08 AP: Missouri soldier dies in Iraq

Andy Habsieger was among four soldiers whose death on Sunday brought

the American death toll in Iraq to 4,000. The four were killed by a

bomb that exploded near Baghdad.

03/25/08 AFP: Four killed in clashes in Iraqi city of Basra

Fierce clashes between Iraqi security forces and militiamen loyal to

radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday killed at least four people

and wounded 18 in the southern city of Basra, police Major Abbas

Youssef told AFP.

03/25/08 AP: Security forces, militias clash in Basra

Iraqi forces clashed with Shiite militias in the southern oil port of

Basra on Tuesday as a security plan to clamp down on violence between

rival militia factions in the region began.

03/25/08 WaPo: Sadr Followers Shutter Stores, Plan Rally

Followers of influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr launched a

civil strike Monday to protest raids and mass arrests by Iraq's

security forces, underscoring the growing frustrations of Sadr's

group, which U.S. military officials say is playing...

03/24/08 MCT: Is 'success' of U.S. surge in Iraq about to unravel?

A cease-fire critical to the improved security situation in Iraq

appeared to unravel Monday when a militia loyal to radical Shiite

Muslim cleric Muqtada al Sadr began shutting down neighborhoods in

west Baghdad and issuing demands...

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4,001 American troops are dead, 29,451 are wounded

Harry

General Sanchez: "There is no question that America is living a

nightmare with no end in sight"