Breakfast on the Titanic

Juan Cole has a post up this morning entitled Security Situation in Baghdad Sinking like the Titanic. He quotes a contact in Bagdad:
The situation has deteriorated in Baghdad dramatically today. Five neighborhoods (hay) in Baghdad are controlled by insurgents, and they are Amiraya, Ghazilya, Shurta, Yarmouk and Doura.
According to his contact, the insurgency now controls most parts of Bagdad, except for Sadr City, the power base of our onetime nemesis, Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army.

More from Bagdad:
A few minutes ago Jaafari came on television to tell everyone in Baghdad to stay home. Can't wait for his next bold move. . .

Notwithstanding Al-Hayat's claim that Zarqawi and the Sunni resistance are not together, my street listeners claim otherwise. . .

More and more of even the most patriotic intelligentsia are departing . . . It is remarkable how incapable this government is. Its only success is that it exists at all . . .

Recently, a group from State and the military parachuted in from Washington [with fatuous advice] . . . It is a fantasy world


The last throes continue.

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