back to reality

reuters/ap

before and after: Samarra's al-Askari mosque(BBC)




montage via Marc Lynch

al-Arabiya's Atwar Bahjat, and two members of her crew, Adnan Abdullah, and Khaled Muhassan were also killed on Wednesday. I imagine Jill Carroll must be aware of these happenings, held wherever she is. I think the last deadline her kidnappers gave was this for Sunday.

"Half Sunni, half Shia - a target for everyone" (Times Online UK)