I will say an extra prayer tonight that this article in The New Strait Times proves to be factual.

Iraqi gunmen kill Qaeda’s Fallujah leader

Unidentified gunmen shot dead a local Al-Qaeda leader in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Saturday, police said, as fighting between rival Sunni factions undermined the insurgency.
The apparent assassination of the militant kingpin came as the US military announced that marines and Iraqi security forces had killed seven Al-Qaeda fighters during an assault on a truck bomb factory

While early in the article these individuals are referred to as “unidentified gunmen”, as you read further it give a glimpse of what may actually be occuring.

Both incidents appeared to be linked to increased cooperation between Sunni factions, once sympathetic to the Iraqi resistance, and the US military, which is encouraging nationalist factions to fight Al-Qaeda.
Colonel Tareq al-Dulaimi, a senior police intelligence officer with close ties to Anbar Province’s pro-US tribal coalition, confirmed reports that Muwaffaq al-Jugheifi had been killed but did not identify the attackers.

If we continue to receive assistance from locals and former insurgents our chances of success in Iraq will increase ten fold. I only hope that for the sake of the population in Iraq and for our US military more and more citizens rise up to take back their homeland.

As for the excerpt I will expect to see in US newspapers, it would be this one:

Three children were also reported killed when a US tank opened fire on men believed to be setting a roadside bomb just south of Fallujah. The men escaped and three children were later found dead at the scene.

After all, the rest is either good news now or could well be in the near future.

*J wrote a piece also this week with links which could easily tie in to the above story..check it out.