I’m sure it’s just clumsy writing, but you’ve got to get something of a (cynical) laugh out of the opening paragraph to this USA Today editorial:

The powerful truck bomb that ripped through the United Nations’ headquarters in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing the top U.N. official in Iraq and at least 19 others, was the most brazen act of terrorism in the country since the U.S. invasion in March.

(via Atrios)

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