BRYAN PRESTON: "Michelle and I spent four days patrolling the environs around Forward Operating Base Justice in north and west Baghdad last week. . . . He concludes: "Having said all of this, Iraq is still very winnable." That's what Michael Yon is saying, too.Meanwhile, outside Neverland...
The coordinated detonation of two bombs during the after-school rush at a Baghdad university killed at least 65 people Tuesday and wounded more than 140 others in what university officials described as one of the deadliest attacks on Iraqi academia since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.The spate of killing, which also included a bombing outside a Sunni shrine in a largely Shiite neighborhood of central Baghdad, made plain the difficulties facing the U.S. and Iraqi troops poised for their latest effort to tamp down Baghdad's rampant violence.
It coincided with a report from the United Nations that said more than 34,000 Iraqi civilians died violently last year, an average of 94 per day, an estimate more than double the death toll provided by the Iraqi government.
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