How NOT to win friends

This isn't good news in terms of the insurgency cooling down anytime soon. Not that there were any indications that it would. Iraq's ambassador to the UN has announced that a cousin was killed by US troops.

Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie, a supporter of the United States, said Mohammed al-Sumaidaie, the son of his first cousin, was shot by Marines during a raid at his father's house in the village of Al-Shaikh Hadid, near a U.S. military base at the Haditha Dam.

"All indications point to a killing of an unarmed innocent civilian -- a cold blooded murder," Sumaidaie said.