There's been another 'stray shot' in another Baghdad market place.

Two market places hit in two days, after a week virtually devoid of major civilian deaths.

A specialist on the news suggested what everyone was thinking (dare I say, hoping?): that lightning striking twice in as many days is a bit suspicious. He went on to say that he wouldn't put it past a regime like Saddam's to murder its own civilians for the propaganda coup of dead children. Baghdad's a big city, and two market places being hit within 48 hours?

It's notable that the coalition still hasn't said either way as to whether it was a cruise missile that caused the blast. Either they're dithering over admitting responsibility, or they're trying to work out if it could have been either a stray Iraqi anti-aircraft missile falling back to earth (which shouldn't happen, apparently) or a deliberate targeting/bombing by the Iraqis.

Let's see what happens in future.