Today's Reading List: 5 Jun 2007

The Fourth Rail, Featured Report from Iraq: The Intellectual Grunt – Part Two. Lead by following, Be a sensitive warrior, Greater risks equal lesser risks.

The Fourth Rail, Amariyah, the Anbar Salvation Council and Reconciliation. “We dispatched around 50 of our secret police from Anbar to Amiriyah, and started to hit Al Qaeda there. We killed a lot of them,” Sheikh Hamid al-Hais, the head of the Anbar Salvation Council. . . . The Anbar Salvation Council has formed a “clandestine SWAT unit” which is capable of operating outside of the western province, an American military intelligence official close to the operations of the group told us. These are the “secret police" described by of Sheikh al-Hais.

The Fourth Rail, Iraq Report: Battle in Babil; Amariyah update.

The Fourth Rail, Mahdi rocket teams destroyed in Sadr City.

The Fourth Rail, Featured Report from Iraq: Battle Sight Zero. Training Iraqi Soldiers.

NPR, Shiite Police Blamed for Planting Roadside Bombs.