That'll teach him

The Associated Press has an article by Robert Reid about yet another suicide shooter, in Mosul this time, who got his, if a little late:

An Iraqi soldier Wednesday sprayed automatic weapons fire at US soldiers at an Iraqi military base in Mosul, killing two and wounding six before he died in a hail of bullets, an American general said. Major General Mark Hertling, commander of US forces in northern Iraq, said the "premeditated" attack occurred in a courtyard as the soldiers waited for their two lieutenants to finish a meeting with an Iraqi army company commander. Hertling, who said he had spoken with some of the wounded troops, disputed Iraqi accounts that the shooting followed a heated argument between the Iraqi soldier and the Americans. Hertling said the attacker strolled into the courtyard carrying a Kalashnikov rifle and a drum of ammunition, walked to a corner, turned and opened fire. "One shot was aimed and the rest was literally a spray," he said. "There was no argument, no spitting, no slapping, none of that occurred." The six wounded American soldiers were expected to recover, Hertling said.
In Baghdad, Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mohammed al-Askari said the shooting followed a quarrel at an Iraqi base in a volatile Sunni Arab neighborhood in central Mosul. The Iraqi soldier was identified as Barzan al-Hadidi. It was the second such shooting in Mosul in a year, raising questions about the professionalism and preparedness of Iraqi security forces and their relations with their American partners.
As violence raged in Mosul, a string of bombings rocked Baghdad for the third consecutive day, killing 23 people and wounding about 90, police said. The Iraqi army acknowledged the rise in attacks and said it was taking measures to curb "the increasing number of terrorist attacks" in the city.
The first car bomb blew up in a bustling mostly Shiite section of downtown Baghdad during the Wednesday morning rush hour, killing four people and injuring 15. A second car bomb exploded near a school in the Shiite-dominated neighborhood of Shaab in north Baghdad. Iraqi police said five people were killed and 12 wounded. A roadside bomb wounded seven people in another part of Shaab, police said. Two bombs blew up within moments of each other in the evening in the mostly Shiite district of New Baghdad, with the second explosion occurring just after police arrived to investigate the first. It was not immediately clear how many were killed in each explosion, but police and hospital officials gave an initial toll of 14 dead, including three children and two women.
The recent uptick in bombings was a setback to security gains that led to violence dropping sharply in recent months in the capital. In the first nine days of November, there were at least 19 bombings in Baghdad, compared with 28 for all of October and 22 in September, according to an Associated Press tally.
The rise in attacks also comes as U.S. and Iraqi officials try to hammer out a final agreement on a security deal that would keep U.S. troops in Iraq until the end of 2011. Parliament must approve the deal by the end of the year when the U.N. mandate authorizing the U.S. presence expires.

Rico says spitting? Slapping? There's obviously more to this story than we've heard...