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January 24, 2008
Today in Bizarro Iraq...
...where the surge didn't work and the war hasn't largely ended:
BAGHDAD -- The police chief of a northern province was killed today when he was ambushed while touring the site of a devastating bombing a day earlier, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.A U.S. military statement said that Brig. Gen. Salih Mohammed Hassan, the director of police in Nineveh province, died along with two Iraqi policemen when a suicide bomber blew himself up in their midst. The statement said a U.S. and an Iraqi soldier were injured in the attack.
(h/t Paddy at Cliff's house)
UPDATE: From CBS News...
The Thursday attacker was wearing an explosives vest under an Iraqi police uniform when he struck,
General Westmoreland once calculated that a conventional military needs 10-to-1 superiority in order to defeat an insurgency.
Posted By Bob Cesca | January 24, 2008 09:02 AM | DIGG ME!
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