Picture of the Day - 3

A man carries a wounded victim of a blast to Imam Ali hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City February 3, 2007. A suicide bomber killed 135 people on Saturday in the deadliest single bomb blast in Baghdad since the 2003 war when he drove a truck packed with one tonne of explosives into a busy market in a mainly Shi'ite area. (Kareem Raheem/Reuters)

(AP) "It was the fifth major bombing in less than a month targeting predominantly Shiite districts in Baghdad and one provincial city to the south.....

Suspected Sunni attackers have appeared emboldened in recent weeks after radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, under pressure from fellow Shiites who dominate the government, ordered the thousands of gunmen in his Mahdi Army militia to avoid American attacks in the coming assault."

(I warned of this three weeks ago. These attacks have the specific goal to draw Mahdi back out onto the streets and they will continue until that is achieved. It's all outlined here.)