U.S. Troops Start To Relax As Iraq Security Improves

From Yahoo News/Reuters:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A few months ago, Lieutenant Greg Bassett and other U.S. soldiers would move through Abu Dsheer in a leapfrog pattern, half of them down in the dirt, rifles at the ready, protecting the rest as they ran.

Wednesday, Bassett and the other U.S. soldiers lounged in a schoolyard in this once violent community on the outskirts of Baghdad, watching residents slaughter four cows to mark the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, or feast of the Sacrifice.

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