World News 12-05-2005 who: US troops what: Kill 75 rebels in strike against insurgents where: Iraq when: Monday snippet: "Troops launched an offensive to drive insurgents from militant Anbar province in the west," says The Mirror. "But later suicide car bombers killed three people and wounded eight at a checkpoint in Baghdad." On Wednesday, "at least 82 people" died in Iraq in four separate suicide bombing incidents. "Even by Iraqi standards, yesterday was a terrible day," says Thursday`s Guardian leader. "The attacks again gave the lie to the optimistic claim, spun in recent weeks by US spokesmen, that the insurgency is waning, or at least is mounting a final desperate onslaught before acknowledging that the game is up." [... more]

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