It is getting tiresome to find out that major successes in Iraq simply are ignored in the mainstream media. This time Max Boot, a defense analyst, author and former Wall Street Journal editor provides the useful source for news directly from the front. The way he gets it is to ask American personnel on the scene to tell him what is going on. What a concept! Quick, pick up the phone and call the Medill School of Journalism.
We do know from the MSM that once-tormented Anbar Province has become much less dangerous since the Surge and the decision of Sunni tribes to distance themselves from--and then, turn on--al Qaeda. Here, from Colonel John Charlton in Ramadi, via Max Boot's Contentions blog at Commentary magazine's site, is a report on a major al Qaeda attack that recently was thwarted, with most of the 50 attackers killed or captured.
