These are hard times for suicide bombers, thanks to improved security in Iraq. Consider the plight of the ineffective suicide bomber in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad. Unable to get through the main gate of the nationalistic 1920's Revolution Brigade headquarters, he was forced to blow himself up outside the main gate. (This is a Sunni group which recently turned against Al Qaeda.) A woman nearby was killed. Story here.The headline in this post is based on the now-famous McClatchy story of the plight of under-employed cemetery workers who are feeling the pinch due to fewer deaths in Iraq.
