Yet another bombing in Iraq

Oy.

A suicide bomber detonated his car Monday at the gate of the home of the leader of Iraq's biggest political party, killing nine people and injuring 39, police said. The cleric was unharmed.

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq — the country's most powerful Shiite political group — was in his residence in Baghdad's Jadiriyah district when the attack occurred, said his spokesman, Haitham al-Husseini.

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They're expected to hold free and open elections when party headquarters are being bombed? Watergate may have been horrible, but imagine if the Committee to Re-elect the President (Nixon's reelection campaign) had tried to blow up the Democratic National Committee instead of just stealing its files...