In other Iraq news, the US military has confirmed it carried out a deadly raid in Janaja, the hometown of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. One of Maliki’s cousins was killed in the raid. The man, Ali Abdulhussein al Maliki, served as a bodyguard for the Prime Minister’s sister. The US raid occurred in Karbala province, one of nine provinces ostensibly under full Iraqi control. But Iraqi authorities told McClatchy Newspapers the raid was conducted without their knowledge or coordination.