Iraq - Baghdad rocked by suicide blast

Since the BBC only report from their hotel, this is the kind of reporting we get.

An explosion in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has shaken buildings and covered the area in a pall of smoke. [...]

Suicide bombings are a tactic often employed by Iraqi insurgents.

You suspect the coalition, maybe?

The BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad says the feeling in Iraq is that the tempo of insurgent attacks against the US-backed authorities is rising again after a lull during February in the wake of elections.

"The feeling"? Sheer speculation without any facts or figures to back it up. The BBC calls this reporting.

The political process in Iraq is currently stagnant during efforts to form a government, our correspondent adds, allowing insurgents the opportunity to renew attacks.

Ah, it's the politicians fault for being too busy setting up their first freely elected government in over 50 years or perhaps their history.

And I suppose the military is just sitting around doing nothing while the politicians go about their business.

I imagine this story was written on a cocktail napkin while Muir sat around the pool at his hotel.

Unfortunately, we pay for this drivel.

UPDATE

Five days ago Muir said attacks were dropping.

Although figures can be misleading, the general level of attacks since the 30 January elections is thought to have dropped a little from the highs recorded in the run-up to the poll.

Notice here he says "figures can be misleading", whatever that means, and the use of "thought to have dropped" phrase. Todays article says "the feeling".

"Thoughts"? "Feelings"? What happened to facts?
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