Three-quarters of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been destroyed over the last year, the Interior Ministry in Baghdad has said.

Iraqi and American commanders said the improvement in security in the country over 2007 had been remarkable.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7164520.stm

More good news for Iraq

Messages like this one--which ran on Iraqi television recently--both reflect and encourage the kind of trend that is beginning to shape Iraq on a local level:

http://www.noterror.info/Alley_62_high.wmv