Key Sunni Ally in Anbar Killed

[Marcus]

I seriously considered titling this post "The Bad News in Iraq Thread" and then requesting that "Admin: Please ensure that everyone respects this thread topic. Good news would not be appropriate and would only clutter up the thread. Thank you." but decided not to because this story is too important to waste it on an easy mockery of Fossten.

Please refer to my original post here.

Then see this from today.
Blast kills top sheik working with U.S. in Iraq

This is indeed bad news.