A Grim Assessment By the Associated Press

The Associated Press reported this morning on current operations in Iraq, describing a number of successes in which insurgents were captured or killed. But at the AP, good news never comes unalloyed. The AP adds this commentary:

U.S. military officials also have been signaling for weeks that improvements in Iraqi security forces had not lived up to expectations

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