An example of the quagmire
Wave of Violence by Iraqi Rebels Kills 80 in 3 Days
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: December 6, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 5 - Militants surrounded a bus full of unarmed Iraqi contractors employed by American forces as they rode to work on Sunday morning and gunned down 17 of them. It was the latest in a series of increasingly brazen attacks that have left more than 80 people dead in the past three days and deepened the sense of growing mayhem here as the January elections approach.
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