Sons of Iraq

One-time Sunni insurgents in Iraq have helped stabilize the country through so-called “Awakening Councils,� but as The World’s Katy Clark reports, their role in the future could depend on how the Sunnis get along with Iraq’s Shiite-dominated government.

Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Jim Muir in Baghdad and Harvard professor Eric Rosenbach about suicide bombings in Iraq today in which police say women suicide bombers were involved in the attacks.

President Bush this week praised Iraq’s “Awakening Councils,” who have allied themselves with US led forces to fight against the group known as “al Qaeda in Iraq,� as a sign of progress in the country

President Bush spoke at the Pentagon today to mark the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, and Anchor Lisa Mullins gets reaction from a Baghdad native, Ghaith Abdul Ahad, who reports for the British newspaper, The Guardian.

A group of former Sunni insurgents in Iraq joined forces to form, “The Awakening Council,� and the American-backed group has grown to about 70,000 members and has helped quell the violence