Over 20 Dead in Guerrilla Violence

"The Iraqi general in charge of Baghdad security was killed by a sniper on Monday. I suppose it doesn't need underlining that this is very bad news for Baghdad security. The assassinated commander, himself a Sunni Arab who led men during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, was almost certainly the victim of an inside job. The Iraqi military is deeply infiltrated by guerrilla supporters."
Juan Cole

Let's hope that this was an isolated incident. If it's the next move in a campaign of targeted assassinations designed to destabilize and demoralize the new Iraqi military...