Iraqi fracture point

Without much notice, most of the US created/turned local Sunni militia groups have been officially transferred to Iraqi government control, and now we face the potential "worst fear" questions of how that relationship will work out.

The NYTimes has an article on some of the Sunni militiamen who are unhappy although it's mostly anecdotal and doesn't give a firm sense of the level of disenchantment.

This meshing of the Sunni groups into the official Iraqi structures is a key item of reconciliation, and it's going very slowly thus far. Just something to keep an eye on.