Michael Yon has posted Part IV of his series and like all of his work he drives home points and touches on information which we do not read here at home in the press. This dispatch is loaded with more wonderful photography. Here’s a snippet:

At one of the houses, Iraqi soldiers said that there had been a lot of shooting on a recent night. What had all the shooting been about? Were insurgents trying to take over? No, the old man said, it was just a couple of brothers having a shootout over a small land dispute. “Okay,” the Iraqi soldiers shrugged it off. It was just a shootout between brothers. Nothing more to ask about.

There are many similarities between Iraq and home, but at the end of the day, a Cain and Abel shootout is not even something that warrants paperwork. Tribal law. This is not Kansas. Some things are very different.

Another worthwhile read from Mr. Yon