Iraq 9-1-1

While an Iraqi military leader (a colonel) who tried very hard to tame sectarian violence is killed, an America citizen is sentenced to death in Iraq.

Also in Iraq, almost any family with the means to escape the country we turned into a vicious war is getting the hell out of the figurative Dodge. More than a million of Iraq's pre-war 24 million citizens have left, with estimates that another million or so have died in violence. However, some officials in Iraq say the figures of Iraqis in exodus is much, much higher since they were only recently tracking those who left.

Those who don't leave often find family members kidnapped. Then, after many lucrative ransoms are paid, the family members is tortured and executed anyway.