MORE SUICIDE BOMBINGS AND ATTACKS IN IRAQ UNDERSCORE FRAGILE PEACE

This blogger was serverly criticized for publishing a video of a recent bombing in Baghdad that left 10 people dead and scores wounded.

We suggested the highly touted peace in Iraq is on the brink of collapse as the provincial Iraqi government struggles to hold elections next month.

Below is a reort from IRAQ TODAY http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com which proves the point I was making the other day.

Iraq is in a free fall and there is already talk in some quarters that U.S. troops will have to stay in IRAQ longer than President Obama anticipated.

Reported security incidents Baghdad MONDAY AND YESTERDAY.

#1: An explosion late Monday targeted the Baghdad political office of al-Ahrar, a party that includes followers of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, police said. Punched-out round holes in the office walls indicate that at least two rockets were fired at the building, observers said. Officials blamed a roadside bomb for the explosion, which killed one person and wounded three, including Majid Hussein Taha - a director of the Ministry of Agriculture and a candidate running on the party's ticket.

#2: Two civilians were wounded on Monday evening in a sticky bomb blast in western Baghdad, a police source said. “A bomb, stuck by unknown gunmen to a civilian vehicle, went off near Sahet al-Aordon in western Baghdad, wounding two civilians and injuring the vehicle,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#3: Three civilians have been injured in a house blast near the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a police source said on Tuesday. “Unknown gunmen blew up a house in Khan Dari area, west of Baghdad, destroying large parts of the house and wounding three civilians who were close by at the time of the bombing,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Mosul:#1: A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside a police crime lab in northern Iraq, killing at least two people, Iraqi authorities said. The car bomb was parked outside a side entrance to the lab in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometres) northwest of Baghdad, said Lt. Col. Salim Ibrahim, an area commander. It wounded seven people, including five police officers, he said. The explosion knocked over concrete blast walls and caused minor damage to the building, Ibrahim said.

#2: Gunmen also opened fire on two Christian college students waiting at a bus stop in Mosul, killing one and wounding the other, a police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

#3: Greengrocer Fatukhi Munir, an Assyrian Catholic, was gunned down inside his shop in a drive-by shooting late on Monday

#4: and armed assailants killed Rayan Salem Elias, a Chaldean Christian, outside his home on Sunday.

#5: An Iraqi army soldier was killed on Monday in an armed attack on an army checkpoint in western Mosul, a police source said. “Unknown gunmen attacked an army checkpoint in 17 Tamouz neighborhood in western Mosul, killing a solider,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#6: Two Iraqi army officers and one civilian were wounded when a roadside bomb hit on Tuesday an army patrol in eastern Mosul city.

#7: A roadside bomb killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded two civilians in northern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

#8: Police said they found the body of a Planning Ministry employee with gun shot wounds on Monday in western Mosul, police said