Yesterday in Iraq, the Governor of Baghdad was assassinated, five more US soldiers were killed, and two car bombs exploded. Today, ten Iraqis were killed and many more injured at a graduation ceremony for Iraqi recruits — and still Iraqi and American leaders say elections are going to be held on schedule.
Alissa Rubin is no stranger to stories of violence. In her year and a half heading up the Baghdad bureau for the LA Times, she has reported from the front lines of the conflict, and on the growing tensions between Shiites and Sunnis, stories that shed light on the personal lives of people there: rice farmers whose sons are executed by insurgents after joining the Iraqi National Guard, doctors trying to tend to the injured, the mothers of sons fighting on both sides of the conflict.
Guests:
Alissa Rubin, LA Times Baghdad correspondent
Dan Murphy, correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor based in Iraq.