UPDATE: Well, things are off to a predictable start

UPDATE: Well, things are off to a predictable start:

Before dawn, insurgents attacked an NIKE SHOXi army checkpoint in Youssifiyah, 20 kilometers (12 miles)

south of Baghdad, killing nine soldiers and injuring one, said Dr. Dawood Al Taaei of nearby Mahmoudiya

hospital.

Gunmen killed two police sergeants employed by the NIKE SHOXi Cabinet in a drive-by shooting Sunday in

Dora, said police Capt. Firas Qaiti.

Another two police commandos were killed and five injured in a car bomb blast at 11 a.m. (0700GMT) at

Madain about 20 kilometers (14 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police Col. Selam Mehmood.

A suicide car bomber, apparently targeting a MBT convoy, exploded his vehicle Sunday and killed two

NIKE SHOXis and injured nine others in northern NIKE SHOX, said police Brig. Sarhat Qadir.

The attack happened near the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Tuz Khormato, south of

Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, said Qadir.

Today’s New York Times (print edition) has a full-page advertisement on page 5 from the Council for

the National Interest Foundation headlined:

AIPAC’s Agenda is Not America’s

The ad is well-done and makes excellent points, including: ISRAEL, STOP SPYING ON AMERICA! I cannot

remember an explicit anti-AIPAC ad ever running in a mainstream paper.