The attack on Sadr’s house comes as British reporter Robert Fisk warns that Iraq is on the verge of exploding. In his latest dispatch, Fisk warns that 700 Iraqis died in Baghdad in July marking the deadliest month since the fall of Baghdad. Fisk writes that the U.S.-appointed “government” controls only parts of Baghdad and that the unelected prime minister Iyad Allawi is little more than mayor of Baghdad.