CAR BOMB ATTACK THWARTED:

Security forces have arrested two men outside a mosque in the Iraqi city of Kufah after finding two cars laden with bombs.

The arrests came amid warnings from clerics that Saddam Hussein loyalists or al-Qaeda members will strike over the next two days.

The men were arrested outside the Masjed al-Kufah mosque, 180 kilometres south of Baghdad.

A reader from Britain, who sent the link, adds:

Beeb assiduously ignoring this in order to dump all over new Iraqi provisional government before it’s even got started, and raise with hostile-to-America studio guests numerous lurid and highly improbable hypotheticals all tending to ultimate prostration and trampling in dust of Yankee Imperialist Entity.

But of course.