Flush with repeated quotes from military personnel, claiming the glorious "recovery" of Fallouja, this report reads so obviously like a script prepared by the US military for the reporter that it stuns the reader. The reporter evidently, did not engage in any investigative journalism. No rationale was given for the underlying developments that have led to the return to "normalcy" there. It is simply another piece of stenographic "journalism" brought to you by the promoters of the "surge". Unfortunately for the L A Times, far more reliable reports (even on TV, by NBC Evening News), state that "calm" has been restored to Sunni controlled areas by a program of US military payoffs in the millions of US taxpayer dollars to the Sunni "insurgents" in order to achieve the "peace". In other words, this shameful bit of journalistic sychophancy is a propaganda piece. The L A Times is now giving its remaining readers further reason to abandon it as an honest source of news.