Meet The New Boss

From Album 5

While Syria is capturing all the attention, across the border Nouri al-Maliki is bringing back the bad old days...well, except that he's going after Sunnis instead of Shias:

A call went out recently in the local news media urging former special forces officers and their trainers, at the rank of major and below, to answer the need of their country and visit a Ministry of Defense Web site to reapply for service. Those special forces were among Mr. Hussein’s most feared... 

 Things could get very ugly very quickly...or maybe uglier. It's already a mess...