Summary Of Iraq War NewsIraqi Troops Take Charge of Sadr City in Swift Push -- New York Times
Iraqi troops test truce in cleric stronghold -- Reuters
Iraqi Army presses into Sadr City -- Long War Journal
Has Maliki Conquered Sadr City? -- Time Magazine
Operation in Sadr City Is an Iraqi Success, So Far -- New York Times
US says its troops kill 11 militants in Baghdad -- Breitbart
Cleansing Mosul Of al-Qaeda -- Strata-Sphere
Thousands of former Army personnel to return to service in Mosul -- Iraq Updates
Tariq Aziz stays defiant in face of trial for his life -- Times Online
Sadr Is Finished -- Belmont Club
White House Challenges NBC News to Explain Whether Iraq Is in 'Civil War' -- FOX News
Success in Iraq: A Media Blackout -- New York Post
What Happened In Basra When The Militants Were in Control -- CNN
Now Come The Horror Stories Of Mahdi Army Atrocities -- Strata-Sphere
U.S. Deploys a Purpose-Driven Distinction -- Washington Post
Iraqi forces to fully control security by year-end -- Kuwait News Agency
My Comment: The success of the Iraqi Army in both Basra and Sadr City are major accomplishments. This was not expected ..... at least if you read the main stream media. The true test will be to maintain control and to start to rebuild these areas of Iraq. The goal will now expand from security to providing jobs and the prospect of hope to its citizens. Terrorism and car bomb attacks, vendettas and revenge killings, these acts will still continue .... but these is now a small glimmer of hope.
I am now going to make a prediction ...... with its oil wealth, the assistance of the U.S., and a people determined not to fall sway to dictatorship or religious extremism .... I give the people of Iraq a good chance to come out of this better than where they have been for the past few decades.
