"In this year's first quarter, the number of fatal bombings in Iraq spiked. Every month, ever-more American and Iraqi soldiers were being killed. For both, the number of deaths has doubled since December. Larger numbers of Iraqi civilians are dying, too. These statistics come from the Iraq Index, a widely respected compilation of Iraq data published by the Brookings Institution. The numbers for April are incomplete but still suggest that the unfortunate trend is continuing. Consider the double suicide bombing of a wedding party in Diyala province this month. It killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 60 others."" (thanks Amer)