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LOU DOBBS: Turning now to the war in Iraq, insurgents
have killed two more of our troops. One soldier died
in an attack north of Baghdad. Another soldier killed
-- in the hospital -- of his wounds.
2,669 of our troops have now been killed in the war.
Insurgents today also killed 13 Iraqi army recruits
in a suicide bomb attack on a minibus in the Iraqi
capital.
Michael Ware has the report from Baghdad -- Michael.
MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Lou, you're right,
the violence is not abating here in Iraq. The level
of insurgent attacks remains fairly constant.
So far this month alone, according to the CNN figures
we have, 26 American troops have died in the 11 days
of this month already. And we see in the center of
al-Qaeda here in Iraq -- in Ramadi and al-Anbar
province, an area that President Bush himself
highlighted in his speech just last week -- that
America is only half fighting the battle.
The troops there are undermanned and are being
encircled by al-Qaeda. They're fighting with what
they've got, but America is not committing to the
fight, despite the fact that the president and
military intelligence here can point to that area as
the headquarters of al-Qaeda.
We see the attacks on the Iraqi security forces
continue. A man wearing a chest vest, a suicide
bomber, boards a minibus full of police recruits and
detonates here in the capital.
In the meantime, we have Saddam's trial. Three more
witnesses from Kurdish northern Iraq gave testimony
about the Anfal military campaign which they claim
targeted them in the late 1980s.
Yet again we saw Saddam leap to the stage, trying to
drag in current political events about federalism and
the separation of the Kurdish state -- which has
flared here in recent weeks -- into the courtroom. So
we're seeing a strategy here in Iraq that, if it's
not failing, is certainly ailing. And as we see with
the Taliban resurgency that Nic Robertson referred
to, that was self-evident two years ago when you
could visit the Taliban safe havens in Pakistan which
were sponsored by elements of the Pakistani
intelligence agency -- Lou.
DOBBS: Michael, thank you very much.
Michael Ware, reporting from Baghdad.