A Market Reopens

Mike Totten has a new photo essay posted on the reopening of the market in the small town of Karmah between Fallujah and Baghdad that was once an AQI strategic stronghold. Since the MSM moonbats are braying about the grim milestone of the 4,000th death in Iraq among our armed forces I figured I would highlight a good story on what those soldiers that gave it all accomplished.
Things are getting much better though the terrorists I am sure will try to escalate things in an attempt to sway public opinion before upcoming elections there and here. They are losing Iraq and they know it as is evidenced by the desperate pleas for help from OBL and Zawahiri in the last few days to start a war with Israel to fire up their radical base. They are still capable of reaking havoc like the string of attacks yesterday that Gen Petraeus blamed on Iranian supplied gangs. Bill Roggio is at the scene of the big truck bomb that penetrated an Iraqi Combat Outpost and killed thirteen and has pictures and commentary on the COP and the overall fight to finally clear and hold Mosul.