U.S. and Iraqi forces sweeping through Baghdad met little resistance on Friday in an offensive that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told President Bush had been a "brilliant success" so far.
Maliki is under pressure to ease sectarian violence threatening to plunge Iraq into all-out civil war and he renewed a pledge to Bush during a video conference that troops would hunt down militants regardless of their sect.
Brigadier Qassim Moussawi, a spokesman for the Iraqi general overseeing the offensive, said the number of violent deaths reported in the capital had fallen from 40-50 a day to 10.
The commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad confirmed violence had declined but warned of tough days ahead.
Why do I get the feeling that stories like this are going to be used to claim the Bush admin and/or the Iraqi government was lying as soon as the next big terror attack hits a Baghdad market? Maybe seeing a major wire service have anything positive to say about an American operation in Iraq has thrown me a little.
I just can't quite shake this feeling...
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