Surging Toward Civil War, Part 2

—By Bruce Falconer

| Thu Aug. 16, 2007 8:45 AM PDT

I wrote yesterday about the truck bombings in northern Iraq. The death count has now risen to 500, making the attack the most deadly of the Iraq War.

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