The car bomb that exploded outside the French consular building in the usually stable city of Nassiriya, 300 km south of Baghdad, killed a police guard and wounded four other guards, authorities said. The consul, an Iraqi citizen, was not at the office at the time of the attack.
Or, Assad was merely the beneficiary of the attack, and Iran used their connections with pro-Iranian Shias in southern Iraq to strike a blow for Assad.
A number of Iraqis were killed in other bombings throughout Iraq, where terrorists refuse to concede that the war has been "responsibly ended."
