Good Morning, This is Your Wakeup Explosion

Insurgents set a trap for Iraqi police officers overnight. According to The Guardian, they passed a false tip suggesting that militants were holed up in a house in Baghdad's Ghazaliya district. When the cops arrived, the insurgents detonated about 400 pounds of explosives--blowing up the house in question, and six more nearby.

Twenty eight people are known dead at this point.

And, as the story goes on to note, the Coalition of the Willing is getting so light that it soon will float. Ukraine, which sent over slightly more than one battalion, will withdraw most of its 1,650 troops by April. They will be completely gone by 2005. Their contingent was the fourth largest among countries being bribed sending troops.