Well, by the time this is posted, Iraq will have finished their election and the polls will be closed. News reports only very minor violence. Al-Z's pronouncement may have been unraveled by the Sunni terrorists telling him to back-off. All in all he lost a lot of 'face' and this was a major propagandistic loss to Al-Z.
I found it interesting that the attacks in Iraq, all but stopped, when the borders were closed.