More on Iraq

By Heraclitus

As a follow-up to Michael's post just above, Juan Cole has an extended round-up of reporting on another bloody day in Iraq. The violence included the murder of the Iraqi Vice President's brother:

Gunmen dressed in police uniforms killed the brother of Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi on Monday. The Sunni Arab community interpreted the assassination of Lt. Gen. Amer al-Hashimi, and adviser to the Ministry of Defense, as the work of a Shiite death squad. He was the third of the vice president's siblings to be killed this year. Sadrist Shiites in parliament have accused al-Hashimi and his Iraqi Islamic Party of having links to the Sunni Arab guerrilla movement.