I have not been covering the daily news lately here on Between the Lines, but plan to start again next week. But for now, here's the story that will start that new cycle of daily news.
BUSH'S SURGE IS FAILING
Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq, overall levels of violence in the country have not decreased, as attacks have shifted away from Baghdad and Anbar, where American forces are concentrated, only to rise in most other provinces, according to a Pentagon report released yesterday. The report -- the first comprehensive statistical overview of the new U.S. military strategy in Iraq -- coincided with renewed fears of sectarian violence after the bombing yesterday of the same Shiite shrine north of Baghdad that was attacked in February 2006, unleashing a spiral of retaliatory bloodshed. Iraq's government imposed an immediate curfew in Baghdad yesterday to prevent an outbreak of revenge killings.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/13/AR2007061302357.html?referrer=email
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