Hard to say much about the horrific car bombing in Iraq --75 dead? 80 dead? Horrible.

Here's a New York Times/International Herald-Tribune story from last November on Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Iran-backed, anti-Saddam, essentially pro-U.S. Shiite cleric who was killed in the blast; here's a BBC profile from today; here's a March Christian Science Monitor story on his Badr Brigade.