Four days after al-Qaida in Iraq declared all-out war on the Shiite majority, more than 250 people have been killed, 30 of them by a car bomb Saturday outside a produce market in a poor Shiite suburb east of Baghdad. The blast underlined one of the bloodiest weeks since the U.S.-led invasion.
In all, at least 52 people were killed or found dead throughout the country Saturday, victims of mounting sectarian killings promised by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born leader of the terrorist organization and a moving force behind the Sunni-dominated insurgency.
UPDATE
A Kurdish Member of the Parliament has been killed, as well as more American troops.
So now we have an official civil war, and we are in the middle of it, lovely.
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One of the most cited reasons for not pulling our troops out of Iraq was that the country would fall into a civil war. Now that they do, indeed, have a civil war going, can we leave now?
"Mission Accomplished"
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