Just another day in the life and death of Iraq LXI

By Michael J.W. Stickings

From the BBC:

-- "A number of senior Sunni tribal leaders are among 12 people killed in a suicide bombing at a hotel in central Baghdad."

-- "Elsewhere in Iraq, at least 27 people died in a blast in Baiji, in the north, and eight people were killed in a blast in the southern city of Hilla."

So how's it going, General Petraeus, sir?