Violence in Baghdad leaves 4 dead

Associated Press, Yahoo! News

In an attack that has been repeated too many times to count, a roadside bomb detonated on an Iraqi police convoy in Baghdad today, damaging two of the vehicles and killing two policemen. Five others were wounded in the process. Two other incidents -- a mortar landing on a house in central Baghdad and a grenade tossed into crowd at Baghdad's popular Shorja market -- killed two other civilians. Shorja is a central shopping district in Baghdad and was the same location of a massive truck bombing last month. Vehicles have been banned from the area since the new crackdown on Feb. 14. Insurgents also destroyed half of an abandoned hotel in an early morning bombing. You would definitely think that this type of attack would bring about international attention and disdain. However, when news reporters can essentially write their story everyday by simply filling in where the attack occured and how many died, there is an obvious problem. A problem that is not going to be fixed by US forces in Iraq because the fight has now turned into something much, much larger than removing a government from power. It's a clash of culture and civilization all in one.