Al-Qaeda Weakening In Iraq

Baghdad has been flooded with troops. At 81 sq miles (210 sq km), 75,000 troops means 925 per sq mile (357 per sq km). Put another way, its one soldier for every 5 sq meters. That's a high concentration of troops and they still couldn't stop a mosque's being bombed.

A suicide bomber struck a Shiite mosque during prayers Friday in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 20, as violence persisted in the capital despite a massive security operation aimed at restoring order.

Police Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said the attacker blew himself up at the Buratha mosque in northern Baghdad.

Mahmoud said the bomber was wearing an explosives belt, but Jalal Eddin al-Sagheer, the preacher at the mosque and one of the country's leading politicians, said the explosives were inside a worshipper's shoes.

He said the bomber blew himself up when confronted by the guards as they began searching worshippers with shoes beside them inside the mosque, al-Sagheer said.

But we've uncovered evidence the insurgence is losing ground and we're nearing the end of al-Qaeda in Iraq. The evidence doesn't seem to support that.

Sorry, not much snark. I'm like everyone who just wants to see all this killing stop. Bushco has been criminal and totally wrong at every turn, but we've had 2,500 American deaths to prove that and don't need any more.

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