Militants Threaten Iraq PM After Beheading Hostage

Islamist militants vowed on Wednesday to assassinate Iraq's interim prime minister, hours after saying they had beheaded a South Korean hostage in the violent run-up to a U.S. handover to Iraqi rule. - Reuters

And I strongly suspect they'll be successful. That's the real question here, namely, how can we ever have success in a place this screwed up - and a place where we've contributed to the screwed-up-ness of the situation?