And, um, psssst, by the way...

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/16/AR2006071600200.html

Bomber Kills 26 at Cafe in Northern Iraq

By ROBERT H. REID
The Associated Press
Sunday, July 16, 2006; 3:13 PM

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suicide bomber detonated explosives Sunday inside a cafe packed with Shiites in northern Iraq, killing 26 people and injuring 22, an Iraqi general said. Gunmen seized a top Oil Ministry official, the second major kidnapping in as many days.

In the south, a British soldier was killed and another wounded during a raid against a "terrorist suspect" in Basra, the British military said. British troops arrested a top Shiite militia leader in the city, Iraqi police said, but it was unclear if the two events were linked.

The suicide attack occurred about 8:30 p.m. in the outdoor market in Tuz Khormato, a mostly Turkomen city 130 miles north of Baghdad, Maj. Gen. Anwar Mohammed Amin said.

The powerful blast collapsed the ceiling of the one-story cafe, burying many of the victims, witnesses said. Hours afterward, rescuers were still sifting through the debris looking for the dead or injured. Authorities used mosque loudspeakers to appeal for blood donations.

...more, unfortunately...

[lonestarnot]

1. You don't say. I thought they had a democracy over there now.

[redwitch]

2. "The eastern world, it is explodin'"

WWIII is looking imminent. Good thing we have top notch leaders on our team. Statesmen, one and all. Surely they will find a "road map" to settle everyone down.

[mmonk]

3. Deadenders.

Everything will be ok soon, we're there to bring democracy (or was it to fight them over there, so we don't have to here? Or was it to get Saddam's WMD's that could hit us in 45 minutes? Or was it to keep WMD's out of the hands of the terrorists? Something like that?).

[WilliamPitt]

7. I hear we've turned a corner.

[mmonk]

9. The corner of

5th and Main?

[smokey nj]

10. ......in a car going 120 mph, headed straight for a brick wall......

and is that booze I smell on the driver's breath?

[stevedeshazer]

4. Everyone is focused on Israel/Lebanon

Meanwhile, the debacle that is the occupation of Iraq roars on.

Your point is well made.

[eleny]

5. Another turn of the corner

Sadness heaped on sadness. And for what.

[annabanana]

6. It's a shame this big country (ours) seems to have only

one front page.

This, the conflict completely of our own design, not being the "story of the hour" is receiving no coverage.

[BrotherBuzz]

8. Things are going swimmingly in Afghanistan, too.

[uppityperson]

11. 2548

[malaise]

12. I saw that Will

We took a time out and went to the beach to cleanse ourselves of man's inhumanity to man.

Somebody, anybody, stop Bush for all of humanity plueeeez!