Notes on a Zig Zag paper: Sunnis are now supporting their government and encouraging Sunnis to join the security forces...more from Omar.

A new Taliban is rising in Iraq, according to Healing Iraq.

Students of the Basrah and Shatt Al-Arab universities in Basrah city have been on strike for the last three days as a reaction to the attack last week by Sadrists and Mahdi Army militiamen on tens of students organising a field trip or a picnic at Al-Andalus park, downtown Basrah.

Hooded men assaulted the students with rubber cables and truncheons which resulted in the death of a Christian girl, Zahra Ashour, and another student who came to her rescue after militiamen had tore off her clothes and were beating her to death. He was shot in the head.

Read the rest here. Very scary. And it's Saddr AGAIN.

And it looks like Van Steenwyk of Iraq Now hasn't read or heard of the Intel report. I wonder about the guy sometimes.

Hope you read the new heading at the top of the page, a direct quote.