More news from Iraq

Was reading the Washington Post and saw this: bq. Gunmen Kidnap Two Members of Allawi's Family Gunmen kidnapped a first cousin and daughter-in-law of interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi from their Baghdad home on Tuesday, an Allawi spokesman said Wednesday. A militant Islamist group said it would execute Allawi's relatives unless U.S. and Iraqi forces withdraw from Fallujah. And more: bq. Allawi spokesman Georges Sada said they were kidnapped Tuesday night from their home after "a little shooting between their bodyguards and the terrorists." There is other news in that article -- very very good news: bq. In Fallujah, meanwhile, the U.S. military claimed control of 70 percent of the rebellious city west of the capital as fighting entered its third full day. Resistance was reported heavy in places and non-existent in others. bq. The governor of Anbar Province, which includes Fallujah, said troops entering the city had found "the houses where the kidnappers slaughtered the hostages. We found the insurgents' black cloths," Brig Gen. Abudul-Qadir Muhammed Jasim said at a news conference. bq. "We've found hundreds of CDs, documents with their names. We've found documents that give details about the foreigners. . . . We found huge amounts of weapons as gifts from neighboring countries." Emphasis mine -- the real victory will be the intelligence once we mop up the terrorists. We will be able to find out who these people are and who are funding them.