Kidnapped Sheiks Released

On a day of tragedy as a suicide bomber killed 29 police recruits, there was some "good" news as kidnapped sheiks were released.

Police and relatives have identified the tribal leaders abducted in Baghdad as seven Shiites and three Sunnis aligned against al-Qaida who were on their way home to Diyala province, the same region where Monday's bombing took place, after attending a meeting with the Shiite-dominated government's adviser for tribal affairs to discuss coordinating efforts against the terror group.

There has been some good news on an almost daily basis coming from Iraq, and I haven't really written much about it, as it always seems like we are waiting for another "shoe to drop", and get "broadsided" with bad news, right after we write about the good news!


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