The Kingdom of Qaim

In what may be a foreshadow of the future, Al Qaeda took control of an Iraqi town on the Syrian border and renamed it the "Islamic Kingdom of Qaim."

In commemoration of the event, the new government burned down CD shops, a movie theater, and a beauty parlor; as well as left the bullet-riddled body of a prostitute to rot on the street as "punishment."

The Iraqi people must overjoyed with anticipation of Al Qaeda doing for the rest of Iraq what they've done with Qaim, replacing an authoritarian, but secular society with a Talibanesque paradise.