Just another day in the life and death of Iraq XLVIII

By Michael J.W. Stickings

The surge -- and its illusion of success -- continues, but:

Suicide bombers struck across Iraq on Saturday in a sharp upsurge in violence that killed more than 60 people, many of them policemen.

In the worst attack, a man driving a truck packed with explosives blew it up outside a police station in Baghdad's volatile southern district of Dora, killing 20. The blast sent a large column of smoke into the air and rattled windows kilometres away in the center of the city.

Read the WaPo/Reuters article for the details. They aren't pretty.