http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II14Ak04.html">This article repudiates all of the latest "surge" propaganda. Excerpt from the article:
"Petraeus' key argument this week to prove his steering of the Bush-devised "surge" was a "success" was to spin the close collaboration between the occupation and the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi government in Baghdad on the one side with Sunni tribal leaders in al-Anbar province on the other. Petraeus framed it as if this "sustainable" solution was a huge counterinsurgency success of his own making. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The success story in Anbar is not due to the general's wily ways, but to an Iraqi sheikh: Abdul Satter Abu Risha, the leader of a coalition of tribes, including 200 sheikhs, formed in the autumn of 2006 under the name Anbar Sovereignty Council (now it's called Iraq Awakening)."Note that this "sheikh Abdul Satter Abu Risha"
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=11615">was just assassinated yesterday.