"The Tide is Turning"

World H/T to Dugan for finding this article. There are many interesting points to the article which Duggan points out, but I found the following the most interesting.

Commanders in the 101st said knowing that an Iraqi tipped them off to the buried weapons could mean that residents in this largely Sunni Arab region about 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Baghdad are beginning to warm up to coalition forces. "The tide is turning," Vardaro said. "It's better to work with Americans than against us." Army officials would not say who had informed them of the weapons caches or whether national security forces including Iraqi Army and police had helped. "A good Samaritan told us about it," he said, reports AP.

I certainly hope the 2nd Lt. Patrick Vardaro is correct.