BAGHDAD TODAY Revenge killings may have started: Two gunmen shot and killed a senior Ba'ath party official who appeared regularly in uniform on Iraqi state television singing anthems praising Saddam Hussein; just trickling out is news of Iraqi Muslim fundamentalist groups killing two people and wounding four when they fired missiles at four distilleries outside Baghdad; good news is US troops launched night raids on private homes and mounted patrols and roadblocks across the capital as they tried to stem the lawlessness that has left many of its five million residents too scared to venture out. A first raid by a new military police taskforce resulted in 15 arrests and the confiscation of eight Kalashnikhovs, $US30,000 ($46,000) in Iraqi dinars and some fake passports; in another night operation on two homes suspected of harboring gunmen loyal to Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party netted 3kg of Semtex high explosive, Kalashnikhovs and pistols. Eight suspects were detained; workers of the Baghdad Electric Administration are on strike another stupid mistake (we should have Americans in there doing the work and doing it fast); most observers say "Lotsa Luck" getting Iraqis to turn over their weapons (duh!!); in Basra where things were very bad long before the war it is getting better. The planning, as I've said in many posts, has been just awful. The State Department is getting the blame. Somebody should get the blame but somebody better get off their collective asses and fix things.