From
AP:
A former commando in the feared Wolf Brigade blew himself up after sneaking into the morning roll call at the unit's heavily fortified headquarters Saturday, one of a series of weekend insurgent attacks that killed at least 35 people including youngsters waiting to buy sandwiches and ice cream.
... The American military said Marines ordered the four-hour bombardment near the Anbar province frontier city of Qaim after insurgents took control of a road "and were threatening Iraqi civilians," The Marines had lost seven men to militant attacks in the province, an insurgent stronghold, since Thursday. Saturday's airstrikes, 200 miles west of Baghdad, hit insurgents suspected in the recent killing of 21 people, including three who were beheaded and believed to be from a group of missing Iraqi soldiers.
... The weekend attacks further soured efforts by the Shiite-dominated government and Sunni leaders who are searching for a political means to end the insurgency, which sharply escalated after the April 28 announcement of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's government.
... [A]ter the weekend attacks [Interior Minister]Jabr, a reputed hard-liner, did not appear willing to accept any contacts with militants.
The Myth of the . . . so what's the next myth, the UN?