In Haditha, Iraqi police and U.S. marines team up to host youth soccer day for over 200 Iraqi children. There was another successful anti-terrorist raid north of Baghdad. And southeast of Baghdad, a raid finds a weapons cache.
Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters notes the strides made recently by the Iraqi government towards political reform--quote: However, the Iraqi Prime Minister has made some recent steps towards building the kind of coalition that could produce those reforms. He has dumped Moqtada al-Sadr in favor of Sadr's opponents in the south, who have been more amenable to better sectarian relations than the Mahdi Army leader. He convinced that group, the Islamic Council, to sign a compact of cooperation with the Kurds. Maliki traveled to Tikrit last week to humble himself before Sunni tribal leaders in Saddam Hussein's former power base, and apparently made good progress."
