Efforts proceed at pace in Diyala to reconcile differences between Shia and Sunni tribes and forge an alliance to rid the area of al Qaeda:

Approximately 45 local sheiks met with Diyala provincial leadership in Baqouba, Iraq, to discuss their tribe’s concerns, reconcile grievances and discover solutions to rid terrorism from the province, May 23.

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Sheik Ahmed Azziz, Sistani’s representative in Diyala, continued to challenge the leaders to settle their differences and work with the legitimate government; while Ra’ad committed to continue meeting with different nahias throughout Diyala in an effort to create reconciliation at the lowest levels where it can be most easily enforced.

You won’t see these stories of progress in the SurrenderMedia. They liberal media is so wed to defeat in Iraq any news about possible success would destroy their credibility and therefore their corporate viability. The ones chasing profits on Iraq are the SurrenderMedia who are now frightened to death about revealing to America what they have been hiding up until now. Progress. More news you will not see in the SurrenderMedia:

Several weeks ago, Lt. Col. Kurt Pinkerton came face to face with the leading edge of a movement that senior coalition officials say has significant potential to shift the war against al-Qaida in Iraq in their favor.

Pinkerton, commander of 1st Cavalry Division’s 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, was meeting a tribal sheikh in the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib.

“The battalion commander goes to meet with this sheikh,” said Gen. David Petraeus, head of Multinational Forces-Iraq and the senior U.S. commander in country.

Pinkerton knew that the sheikh and his tribesmen were “sort of on the edge” of those who had been fighting the coalition.

“These guys are more resistance than hard-core insurgency,” Petraeus said. “They’re a tribe, and the tribe has sort of helped the insurgents a bit.”

But the sheikh had a surprise for Pinkerton. He told the lieutenant colonel the tribe was ready to take up arms against al-Qaida.

“What makes you think you could possibly turn out volunteers?” Pinkerton asked him, according to Petraeus.

“Well, come out back,” the sheikh replied.

When Pinkerton stepped outside, Petraeus said, he found roughly 2,000 tribesmen staring back at him. “And they all want to be provisional police,” the general added.

Is that more news worthy than another al Qaeda bomb at a Sunni Funeral? Even if you went with the bombing you would, to be honest and balanced, have to report on the results of all this bombing by al Qaeda. It is creating a massive backlash against the Islamo Fascists all across Iraq. Here’s another story:

As for the ruined city, Kozeniesky, now a Lt. Colonel with 2nd Battalion, 5th U.S. Marines, says he sees clear signs of progress.

“Ramadi has been under siege, literally, for about four years now,” Kozeniesky said Thursday during a phone interview from Iraq. “People that I talk to on a daily basis are really tired of it.”

More than anything that U.S. forces or their Iraqi allies might do, Kozeniesky said, the desire for a return to normalcy is driving the developments that are often cited as signs of a turning point in Anbar province.

Kozeniesky calls it the “Al-Anbar awakening.”

According to the military and independent reports, the Iraqi equivalent of neighborhood watch groups have become increasingly active in rooting out insurgents, many of whom come from elsewhere.

Kozeniesky said that’s led to near daily discoveries of weapons caches and has begun to undermine the insurgency’s base of support.

Is that enough dots to connect for the myopic SurrenderMedia. If not, how about this story:

The Al-Anbar province is in transition,” said Allen. “The recent improvement in the security situation across the province has created significant political and economic opportunities.”

Recently, Al-Anbar citizens have made several big steps engaging al-Qaeda in the province and have grown politically and economically closer with the Iraqi central government.

“There are dramatic changes in Al-Anbar,” said Allen. “The Anbaris have rejected al-Qaeda’s [missing text]..

“The security improvements have been brought about by a groundswell of opposition to al-Qaeda, represented in the fact that just in a year, the police forces in Al-Anbar have grown from about 2,000 to 14,500,” he added.

Not good enough yet? Still a little fuzzy on what could be happening on the ground? How about this story:

As the community leaders of Al-Anbar stand against al-Qaeda by providing information to Iraqi and Coalition forces, progress in security has limited terrorist activities in the region.

“We’re seeing the attack numbers continuing to drop [in Al-Anbar], which is a very good indicator that the security system is getting better,” said Gurganus.

One year ago, it was difficult to get the Al-Anbar citizens to join the Iraqi Security Forces. However, when tribal leaders and local sheikhs decided al-Qaeda didn’t offer an ideology they were willing to follow, “the Awakening” began, said Gurganus.

“The Awakening” was coined by Al-Anbar leaders when the community leaders of Al-Anbar decided to fight al-Qaeda and began showing support for the Iraqi democracy.

What a drammatic difference from the SurrenderMedia’s obsession with the body count. If we only looked at traffic fatalities and nothing else in this country we would assume the automobile was the scourge of humanity and not the liberator it was to allow people to visit and learn about each other. The SurrenderMedia is HIDING this information from the broader public. A little time on the internet and I found all these great stories from across Iraq from this week alone. So it is not the media is incapable of reporting this – they are unwilling. Americans need to ask “why is that?”