One month's toll in Iraq: 67 suicide bombers

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The number of suicide attacks in Iraq has reached a record high, with more than 67 insurgents blowing themselves up in the month of April alone. New figures revealed by diplomatic and Iraqi security sources yesterday show that of the 135 car bombings that month, which took hundreds of lives and inflicted thousands of injuries, more than half were suicide missions. The number of car bombings has doubled since March... Kim Howells, the new Foreign Office minister of state responsible for the Middle East, yesterday described the attacks as "horrendous". He said: "These and other recent tragic incidents are the desperate acts of those seeking to destabilise the successful democratic political process reflected in the recently elected transitional government. They will not win."

Attacks against civilians are of course horrific, but when they are claimed to be `horrendous´ by a representative of a side that has killed tens of thousands of civilians in this war, one can do little else than to say that claims like that are hypocritical. If you want to stop the insurgents of killing innocent civilians, your side will have to do so too, Mr Howells. And will you? Of course not. And yet military leadership on your own side thinks that the fight against the insurgency is unwinnable.

So what about a declaration of truce and an open invitation for negotiations for all insurgents?