You have to hand it to the Iraqi resistance, they are somewhat more clued up than the yanks.
Teheran Diplomat Killed as Iran Works to Aid Iraq Talks
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 15 ? An Iranian diplomat was shot dead here on today, his car sprayed with bullets in broad daylight as he was driving on a busy street near Iran's embassy.
The Iraqi police at the scene of the shooting, across the street from the former Information Ministry in a central Baghdad neighborhood, said it was a drive-by attack. They said they believed at least one gunman and an accomplice were involved. The attack on the Iranian diplomat, Khalil Naimi, took place a day after an Iranian government delegation arrived in Iraq to help mediate a stand-off between the American military and an anti-American cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. United States military officials have said they intend to kill or capture Mr. Sadr, for whom an arrest warrant was issued in connection with the murder of a Shiite cleric last year.
Iranian officials themselves were divided on whether the murder was related to the delegation's mission. . "It is most certainly related to this visit," Hossein Sadeghi, the Iranian foreign ministry's head of the delegation, said to Agence France-Presse.
Has anyone else noticed the speed with which the resistance responds to changing circumstances?
The US gets shitty with Al Sadr's newspaper and kicks in Al Yaqoub's door and suddenly has to deal with Najaf, Kut and Nassriya under the control of Sadr's militia. The US promises to get tough with Fallujah and gets its ass booted in Ramadi.
The Iranians climb into the ring on Thursday and by Friday one of their representatives is full of lead in a Baghdad street.
These people are very fast, very well informed and completely in control. The hostage thing is also a brilliant strategy. Thugs like Berlusconi talk big and they get their people killed. Talk big again, more dead citizens. Played out in the public arena and on Al Jazeera. If their societies survive this, they are headed, all of the dumb shits, for oblivion and a trial.
Marisacat was talking about Powell and Biden showing all the signs of shitting their pants with fear. They have good reason, they have opened Pandora's box and they have just realised that what they have had so far is no more than a free sample of what is in store.
Billmon says as he closes the bar, something I've been saying for a year. We are over the cliff, we are all in perfect health, the car is in fine shape, and that will be true right up to the moment we turn to jello at the bottom.
I was in a car crash once, when I was much younger, and the sensation I have now is the same one I had in the moment before impact, as I watched that telephone poll hurtling towards my windshield. It was an odd, detached moment -- like watching someone die in a movie -- and my last thought was something like "oh well."
The only laws to which we are now subject, are the laws of physics.