[dennisw]

Sistani?

[Eurotwit]

No, don't think so.... He's hardly ever out in public.. This was probably the local imam at the Bagdad mosque.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Background, maybe the same group of bombers:

Foreign suicide bombers in video boast of Jihad missions against US occupation

[Fledermaus]

Religious Shiite day...interim Constitution just approved...to be expected by the desperate.

It's an attempt to force civil war because the Baath Party is dead and the outside agitators have a decreasing number of targets and can't get people into their cause.

This is about symbolism. And any protests against Iraqi forces and U.S. soldiers would be part of their plan.

I don't think this will work. Look for stories the next few days, if you can find them, about arrests, raids, killing of terrorists, etc.