Bombings Kill Four in Iraq

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Bombings Kill Four in Iraq; Rebels Rebound

Bombings targeting U.S. and Iraqi forces killed at least four people Friday as insurgents appeared to rebound after a lull in violence since the country's January elections. In the worst incident, a roadside bomb near the central city of Samarra killed two Iraqi soldiers, an army source said.

In Baghdad, a car bomb intended for a U.S. military convoy passing through the upscale Mansour neighborhood killed at least one person and wounded five, including an American soldier, police and the U.S. military said.
On the other side of the capital shortly afterwards, a bomb targeting Iraqi National Guard troops killed a civilian and wounded three others, police said.


U.S. commanders say the number of insurgent attacks has dropped by about a fifth since the election, but the scale and sophistication of militant operations seems to have increased.
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1. Bombings Kill Four in Iraq

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs targeting U.S. and Iraqi forces killed at least four people on Friday as insurgents resumed attacks this week after a lull in violence since January elections.

A roadside bomb near the central city of Samarra killed two Iraqi soldiers, an army source said.

In Baghdad, a car bomb intended for a U.S. military convoy passing through the upscale Mansour neighborhood killed atleast one person and wounded five, including an American soldier, police and the U.S. military said.

Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq said one of its suicide bombers drove his vehicle into a convoy of American "cross worshippers" while traveling in Mansour and inflicted casualties.

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Al Qaeda's wing my ass.

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2. Rebels rebound???

It seems to me they have never slowed their attacks yet the media seems to want to push this fallacy:

"insurgents appeared to rebound after a lull in violence since the country's January elections."

If it is, in fact, true that the number of attacks had dropped then the media was not reporting all the attacks BEFORE the election, no surprise there though.