Iraq: Good News #7

With out the hard work of our guys day in and day out we would have never reached this point.

"We are talking about cease-fires, and maybe signing some things that say they won't conduct operations against the government of Iraq or against coalition forces.," Odierno told Pentagon reporters in a video conference from Baghdad."

And from the AP this story.

A battle raged in west Baghdad on Thursday after residents rose up against al-Qaida and called for U.S. military help to end random gunfire that forced people to huddle indoors and threats that kept students from final exams, a member of the district council said.

It is the first line in this report but then, to not let any good news go unanswered, AP reports on these storys before going on to how well the above action went for our side.

Elsewhere, a suicide bomber hit a police recruiting center in Fallujah, killing as many as 25 people, police said. The U.S. military said only one policeman was killed and eight were wounded.
The American military also reported the deaths of three more soldiers, two killed Wednesday in a roadside bombing in Baghdad and one who died of wounds from a roadside bomb attack northwest of the capital Tuesday. At least 122 American forces have died in May, the third-deadliest month of the Iraq conflict.

Now onto the rest of the GOOD NEWS...

the al-Qaida leader in the Amariyah district, known as Haji Hameed, was killed and 45 other fighters were detained.