Prime Minister Ebrahim Al Jaafari, announcing plans for a massive police presence in and around the capital, acknowledged that "you can't fix in six months what it took 35 years to destroy." | And which wasn't all that well-made when Sammy took over... |
Al Jaafari said the discovery forced a much larger plan than just setting up checkpoints along the city's 23 entry points. Leaning forward as he sat in a heavily guarded building inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, Al Jaafari said the discovery also had a silver lining. "I make particular reference to this one factory that had this capacity because we found it based on a tip. Tips are increasing and they are significant," he said. Since the government was announced on April 28, insurgents have killed more than 620 people; 91 car bombings have killed at least 291 of that number and wounded another 800, according to a count by the agency.