CBS News: Violence suggests Iraq 'surge' is failing

David Edwards

Published: Thursday April 19, 2007 Print This Email This

A CBS News report suggests that President Bush's 'surge' strategy in Iraq is now failing due to a resurgence in bombings and sectarian killings in the capital city of Baghdad.

"At first it worked," reported CBS News's Martin Seemungal. "Many militia men left the city or went underground, there were fewer bombings in central Baghdad, life was returning to the streets. Now sectarian killings are on the rise and the bombers are back in the capital with a vengeance."

Seemungal continued, "Sunni extremists are thought to be behind most of the recent attacks which targeted heavily Shiite areas. The plan everyone here knows is simple: to ignite the all out civil war the surge was designed to stop."

The lastest Associated Press report on Iraq notes, "A suicide bomber breached Baghdad's heavy security presence again Thursday, killing a dozen people in a mostly Shiite district a day after more than 230 people died in one of the war's deadliest episodes of violence."



