the Sugar Conspiracy

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

As I gaze into my crystal ball

The top U.S. diplomat in Iraq said Tuesday that security conditions would improve enough here in the coming months to allow national elections to proceed in January as scheduled, and he suggested that the country's minority Sunni Muslim community would likely abandon plans to boycott the voting once it became clear it would not be postponed.

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His comments came, however, as violence in the Sunni region north of Baghdad continued. A car exploded in a busy marketplace in the town of Baiji, killing seven people and wounding more than 20 others. Roughly 110 miles north of Baghdad, Baiji sits within the so-called Sunni Triangle, a region once loyal to Hussein and now the heart of the resistance to the U.S. efforts in Iraq. A car bomb also detonated in western Baghdad shortly before noon, wounding five U.S. soldiers.

Whoops. Someone should tell the insurgents what Negroponte said. I don't think they were listening.

posted by chris at 5:11 PM
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