Iraqis Still Enjoying the Freedom We Gave Them

Cough. From CNN:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Insurgents in Iraq have killed a top Interior Ministry official on the same day that seven others died in a series of car bombs and shootings, officials said.

Militants also said Monday they had kidnapped two Pakistanis, one Iraqi and two Jordanians. Kidnappers holding seven truck drivers also again extended their deadline.

Brig. Gen. Mussab al-Awadi, in charge of tribal affairs for the Iraqi government, and two of his bodyguards were killed Monday in a drive-by shooting, a senior ministry official said.

The shooting came after a suicide car bomb attack at Mosul Airfield, which killed two Iraqi civilians and a member of the Iraqi security forces, a U.S. military spokesman said.