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Irak: her går det godt
Det er ikke meget vi hører om Irak i de danske medier, nu hvor landet er på vej til fred og demokrati efter de nyligt overståede valg.
Eller? En konsekvens af den høje valgdeltagelse og af befolkningens holdning til oprørerne, som jeg ikke har hørt nogen observatører hænge sig i er, at et flertal af vælgerne i den arabiske del af Irak må støtte angreb på "koalitionens" besættelsesstyrker (hvilket ikke er det samme som at støtte selvmordsangreb på civile, som næppe foretages af de samme grupper, som står bag angreb på amerikanske og britiske soldater).
Det har altså nok så meget handlet om at stemme nogen ind, som kunne få amerikanerne og briterne ud af landet - om nødvendigt med magt.
Men hvordan er det så, i Bush og Blairs fredelige, nye Irak?
Her er, hvad Today in Iraq kan fortælle om dagen i går - kun dagen i går, torsdag den 5. januar 2006:
Bring 'em on: Five Task Force Baghdad Soldiers were killed today when an improvised explosive device struck their vehicle while on patrol in the Multi-National-Division Baghdad area of operations.Hvornår var det nu, Bush erklærede Mission Accomplished og fred i Irak? Nåh, ja: 1. maj 2003, ombord på USS Abraham Lincoln ...
Bring 'em on: Another two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb near the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, Iraqi police said.
Bring 'em on: a suicide car bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Thamir al-Gharawi said, and gunmen killed three people in separate incidents
Bring 'em on: (update) A suicide bomb attack in the city of Ramadi killed more than 70 and wounded 65, said Mahmoud al-Dulaimi, a doctor at Ramadi's main hospital.
Bring 'em on: four policemen were killed and four wounded when rebels attacked two patrols with small arms fire just outside Baquba, 60 kilometres (35 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
Bring 'em on: The blast near the Imam Hussein shrine in central Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, killed 49 people and injured 52, said Karbala police Col. Razaq al-Taie.
Bring 'em on: The attack took place at a police screening center in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 70 miles west of Baghdad. At least 30 people were killed, said Mohammed al-Ani, a doctor at Ramadi General Hospital and police Capt. Nassir al-Alousi.
Bring 'em on: A roadside bomb exploded near a convoy of U.S. troops headed for the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Thursday, and Iraqi police said there were casualties.
Bring 'em on: Three cars bombs, two of them suicide attacks, exploded in Baghdad on Thursday, killing two people and wounding six, police and Interior Ministry sources said.
Bring 'em on: Two civilians were killed and four wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a U.S. patrol in Najaf
Bring 'em on: Gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying Lieutenant-Colonel Adel Abdul Karem, head of criminal intelligence in Dialah province, seriously wounding him and killing three bodyguards.
Bring 'em on: A major gas pipeline in Bajwan, 15 km (9 miles) west of Kirkuk, was seriously damaged in a mortar attack on Wednesday night, police said. On Thursday morning the same pipeline was attacked with explosives, causing a huge fire, they said.
Bring 'em on: An Iraqi soldier was killed and two wounded when a bomb went off near their patrol in Latifiya
Bring 'em on: Two Iraqi policemen were wounded on Tuesday when a makeshift bomb went off near their patrol in Iskandariya
Bring 'em on: Two police commandos were killed and nine others wounded when mortar rounds landed on their checkpoint in western Baghdad
Bring 'em on: Insurgents attacked a convoy of fuel tankers escorted with police commando in north of Baghdad on Wednesday, setting 19 tankers ablaze and destroying three military vehicles. Fierce fighting broke out between the attackers and US-Iraqi troops which rushed to the area.
Bring 'em on: Insurgents attacked a convoy of 60 tanker trucks with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns, destroying three of the tankers and damaging 15 others, said police Lt. Abdul Zahra Qassim. Three Iraqi army vehicles, which had been guarding the convoy, were also destroyed in the attack about 25 miles north of Baghdad, police said.
Bring 'em on: At least eight people were killed and 12 wounded when a car bomb exploded in southern Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. The car was parked close to a busy commercial market in the Doura district.
Bring 'em on: in the western part of Baghdad, police became involved in a half-hour firefight with insurgents. One policeman was killed and 16 other officers injured.
Bring 'em on: Even as soldiers of Hawaii's 100th Battalion packed up its combat flag this week as they prepared to return home, their base camp near Balad came under mortar attack. The attack occurred Monday.
Bring 'em on: In the capital gunmen in separate incidents killed a former army captain
Bring 'em on: Gunmen in Mosul attacked the political offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, killing a civilian, Dr. Bahaldin al-Bakri said
Bring 'em on: A roadside bomb in Baqouba killed a woman, the Diyala police said.
Bring 'em on: In Aziziyah, 35 miles southeast of Baghdad, gunmen fired on a police patrol, killing one policeman
Bring 'em on: A US drone crashed Wednesday in a residential area in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, said a security source.
Bring 'em on: In central Baghdad, at least two people were wounded in a roadside bombing, witnesses said, while, in the restive town of Baquba further north, one woman was killed and several people wounded in two bomb attacks.