This is interesting...

According to Reuters, his eminence Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani survived an assassination attempt in the city of Najaf. However, according to ABCNEWS.com, the report coming out of Iraq is a lie.

If the report is true, which I suspect it is, then Iraq, and indeed, the entire world, got incredibly lucky. If the report is false...I'm not quite sure what's going on, then.

Links via Josh Marshall and Hesiod.