The Whole World is Watching...

While New York tries to keep those nasty liberals from "killing the grass", the real modern version of 'the Weathermen' may be brewing in Iraq.

As bad as it was in 1968 in Chicago of course, the number of deaths was minimal compared to this:

An attack on the Kufa mosque Thursday morning killed at least 25 people and wounded about 60 others as they gathered around the holy site for peaceful protests to end the violence in neighboring Najaf.

After the attack, the demonstrators continued their rally and began marching toward Najaf. They came under sniper fire, the source of which could not be determined.

The mosque took two direct hits and another mortar or rocket landed just outside the mosque, witnesses said.

Naturally, the party blamed was...

The demonstrators said they clashed with Iraqi police overnight and early Thursday, but police had left the area before the attack Thursday morning.

Al-Sadr supporters are among the demonstrators.

Some witnesses said they believe the mortars or rockets came from a nearby U.S. military base, a little over a mile (2 km) away.

I guess that means the United States will have to drag out Al-Zarqawi again.

Meanwhile, Sistani is "...about to lay the Hammer Down"

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani entered Iraq from Kuwait in a convoy guarded by Iraqi police and settled in the southern city of Basra for the night with plans to drive the 230 miles to Najaf on Thursday.

Red Pill or Blue Pill?

Sistani will return to a city barely recognizable as one of the holiest locales in Shiite Islam. Tank, mortar and air bombardment have shattered whole streets and reduced to rubble sections of the neighborhoods adjoining the immediate vicinity of the mosque...

"It looks like Sarajevo down there," said Lt. Col. Jim Rainey, commander of the 7th Regiment's 2nd Battalion, referring to the capital of Bosnia, which was severely disfigured during the Balkan wars of the mid-1990s.

It is going to be an interesting next few days.