The war intensifies

For all the happy talk about "breaking the back" of the insurgents in Falluja and holding those elections "on schedule", Iraq is burning hotter and hotter by the day.

Officials had hoped that the recent US-led attack of Falluja would put Iraqi fighters on the defensive. But the latest attacks demonstrate that they are still highly capable of hitting back where they choose.

  Aljazeera article

In simultaneous blasts, insurgents detonated two car bombs Saturday at a police station near the fortified headquarters of the U.S. Embassy and interim Iraqi government, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 50 in the latest assault against Iraq's fledgling security forces.

The U.S. military, meanwhile, reported the deaths of four more U.S. troops from roadside bombs in Baghdad and near Baqubah Saturday and a suicide car bombing Friday that targeted a U.S. outpost on the Iraqi-Jordanian border.

  WaPo article