Picture of the Day - Kirkuk is on fire

Kirkuk is heating up.



Much like Diyala six months ago, the pictures out of Kirkuk are showing a significant increase in violence before the consensus reporting.

The bombings and major events are coming daily now, "Truck bomb in Iraq's Kirkuk kills 12, wounds 137," and, the decision by the Shia led government to support Sunni relocation out of Kirkuk may be the gasoline on the fire.

Kirkuk has become a strategic target for the Sunni bombers which means the civil war has finally come to the Kurds.

The US has virtually no presence in Kirkuk.

(Bodies of victims of violence are seen on the floor of a hospital morgue in Kirkuk, about 250 km (150 miles) north of Baghdad, April 1, 2007. REUTERS/Slahaldeen Rasheed)