Picture of the Day - 3

Residents and rescue workers gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad April 18, 2007. (Ali Jasim/Reuters)

There are some really hard photos out there of this attack (1, 2, 3, 4,) and these are the pictures that made it to the American wires. I cannot imagine the images bouncing around Iraqi sites and cell phones.

This attack is a big deal not just for the horrible tragedy of it, but for the effect it will have inciting the Shia street, provoking the Mahdi militia, and undermining the Maliki government.

And the photos from the hospitals and morgues haven't even come in yet.