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Wing: Assassination boom in Iraq

Joel Wing offers a scorecard. Not clear who is doing it, but the campaign is focussed on officials in Baghdad: "No matter who is responsible, they aim to undermine the functioning of the government and the competency of the security forces, and they appear to be working." I recently was looking at a summary of ...

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Joel Wing offers a scorecard. Not clear who is doing it, but the campaign is focussed on officials in Baghdad: "No matter who is responsible, they aim to undermine the functioning of the government and the competency of the security forces, and they appear to be working."

Joel Wing offers a scorecard. Not clear who is doing it, but the campaign is focussed on officials in Baghdad: "No matter who is responsible, they aim to undermine the functioning of the government and the competency of the security forces, and they appear to be working."

I recently was looking at a summary of open source literature on Iraq collected, I believe, for the CIA, and one of Joel’s pieces was in it.

Lotsa bombs over the weekend. I get the feeling that the vast majority of Americans just don’t care. Not you guys, but pretty much everyone who doesn’t read this blog or things like it.

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1
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