In Iraq, more than seventy people were killed in another day of relentless violence. A suicide bombing killed thirteen outside a police center in Ramadi. In Talafar, at least twenty people died in a suicide attack on a busy market street. At the UN Monday, Secretary General Kofi Annan warned Iraq is descending into civil war.

• UN Secretary General Kofi Annan: “If current patterns of alienation and violence persist much longer, there is a grave danger that the Iraqi state will break down, possibly in the midst of full- scale civil war.”