NOTE FROM JOHN: I'll be on CNN's Reliable Sources show tomorrow morning, probably around 1030AM Eastern or so. Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, will be on Blitzer's show shortly after I appear. Will be fun to see if we meet.
Today's update via Reuters:
*BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 26 people and wounded 29 others when it exploded in Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City, police said.Does the White House know any of this is happening?
*NAJAF - Gunmen shot dead Fadhil Abu Seybi, the head of a local tribe and a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a prominent Shi'ite party. Police said Abu Seybi was killed outside his home in the holy city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad.
*MAHMUDIYA - Police found five bodies bearing signs of torture and bullet wounds, in different parts of the small town of Mahmudiya just south of Baghdad, police said.
*NEAR KIRKUK - Police found the body of an Iraqi woman in a small river northwest of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, police said.
RASHAD - The body of a teenage boy was found dumped on a roadside in the small town of Rashad, 30 km (20 miles) southwest of Kirkuk. Police said the body had numerous gunshot wounds.
*BASRA - A U.S. contractor was killed on Friday as the result of a rocket attack in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra, the U.S. embassy said in a statement.
