Safety Dance
 
How can members of the Iraqi interim government be expected to provide security for their entire country when they continuously prove to be incapable of providing security for themselves?
 
From CNN:
 
In a separate attack Monday in the northern city of Mosul, Laith Hussein Ali, a member of the Turkman National Front, was assassinated in a drive-by shooting in the Al-Arabi district, a local police colonel said.
 
The colonel said gunmen opened fire on Ali's car, killing him instantly and wounding two passengers, including his 7-year-old son.

The Turkman National Front is an ethnic umbrella group comprising a number of Turkmen political parties and Turkman groups.
 
A second assassination reported Monday was a Sunday night drive-by shooting in Baghdad. Issam Jassem Qassim Al-Dijali, the director general of the management department, was killed near his home in the Al-Saydia'a district, according to Radhi Sa'eed, deputy director of media operations in the Ministry of Defense.

The attacks are the latest in a string of violent acts in Iraq as insurgents target authorities for their links to the U.S.-backed government.