and now on to iraq

once again, it appears we're losing the war.

The LAT fronts an examination of an extremely coordinated rebel attack in a city northeast of Baghdad Tuesday, an area U.S. and Iraqi officials said last year was no longer an insurgent stronghold. A dozen cars and trucks unloaded masked men outside a local courthouse, where they then killed 17 policemen, freed 33 prisoners, and set fire to the courthouse.