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Suicide bombers in Iraq have staged a deadly surge of their own, striking three targets on Monday - including the highly fortified Mansour Hotel in central Baghdad. Early reports put the combined death toll at 50, and climbing. But how are militant groups sneaking their bombs and bombers past the giant security dragnet around Baghdad? There are over 70,000 U.S. and Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi policemen spread across the city, conducting house-to-house searches and street patrols, walling off entire neighborhoods and setting up hundreds of checkpoints...
...weeks, and while it heralds remarkable progress in the coalition's fight against the insurgency in the south, it also indicates an alarming spike in civilian casualties that many in this battle torn nation are calling unacceptable. President Karzai, in a vehement denunciation of the mounting civilian death toll, lambasted the international troops at a press conference Saturday, saying that this latest incident was yet another example of foreign troops using disproportionate force...
...already be too late. The Taliban have successfully utilized the increasing civilian death toll as yet another reason why Afghans should hate the infidel invaders, as they call the foreign troops. Meanwhile NATO and Coalition forces can do little more than apologize and order investigations. Those apologies, combined with mounting frustration amongst Afghans who see little of the development projects promised when the international community first arrived after the fall of the Taliban, are starting to wear thin...
...move toward reconciliation is unlikely to see champagne toasts. But as an increased civilian death toll drives more Afghans away from supporting an international military presence in Afghanistan, operation commanders may have to start considering the rising price of their anti-insurgent successes...
...those of Hamas. On Thursday, the Fatah militias rounded up 30 Hamas cadres in the West Bank, and more arrests were expected throughout the night. But these measures are unlikely to ease Hamas' grip on Gaza. In Thursday's fighting in Gaza, over 20 Palestinians were killed, bringing the toll of the four-day civil war to over 90 dead...