Usually, when posting these good news Iraq posts, I write "bet you didn’t see this in the MSM." I can’t do that with this one. From CNN
At least nine bombings in and near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday were aimed at freeing hundreds of inmates from an Iraqi prison, Iraqi and U.S. military sources said.
A high-ranking U.S. military official said Thursday that Iraqi security forces showed they were trained and ready with their response to what he said was the largest insurgent attack in that part of Iraq in eight months.
Mosul police spokesman Gen. Saied al-Jabouri said intelligence reports suggested the attacks were coordinated by al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq — which he said were "two sides of the same coin" — and were an effort to free at least 300 inmates from the al-Faisaliya prison in Mosul.
A U.S. military source said the bombs killed 10 Iraqi police officers, one Iraqi soldier and two civilians. He credited the Iraqi security forces for these "minimal casualties," saying it "could have been much worse if they were not doing their job."
"The ISF dealt with it, showing the people they are trained and ready," the U.S. military official said.
Flabbergasted that this made it past their editors, and was actually linked to on the front page of CNN.com. Perhaps a new leaf is being turned. Maybe they realize that the fastest way to end the war is to stop supporting the enemy, stop emboldening them, and show a united front.
