A third point on this particular graph line would be highly instructive. I like to think they're not stupid enough to blow up a third marketplace. Maybe an orphanage or hospital full of patients?

Well, I think it will be indicitive if we ONLY get these 'big body counts'. Baghdad is a crowded city, but still... Like I said, with the amount of bombs falling on Baghdad its really odd that we had 12 days of no noticable casualties and then suddenly these big droves of dead.

Your air-blast US ordinance was a really good call- its In line with US ordinance but (seemingly, no expert) not with Iraqi ordinance

Also worthy to note... Suppose the orginal Baghdad bang-up was a US mistake. Look how much mileage Iraq got... Lets see if the physical evidence for these n+1 and n+m blasts have more spurious evidence.

ALSO! BIG NOTE! blast #2 was in a shi'ite neighborhood. I wonder about blast # 1? Remember, the sunnis are the big-dogs in Baghdad... and if you want dead pawns, you dont kill your own....

This IS all speculation, though. I suppose its another 'we'll see'

Davin