al-Qaeda in Iraq offensive stopped

[tagryn]

Troops and locals stop twenty car bombs from reaching the streets of Baghdad. I was actually expecting something like this, with the news on Iraq starting to turn relatively positive, it would behoove AQiI to try something spectacular to regain the initiative and prove they're still relevant; the analogy would be to the Tet offensive in Vietnam. I still expect further attempts, though; a series of 8-10 car bombs in one day in Baghdad, repeated over a number of days, would do a lot to swing the positive coverage the "surge" has been getting back the other way.