Talabani offers amesty to insurgents

WaPo reports:

Iraq's new Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani, took office Thursday and immediately offered an amnesty aimed at drawing in Sunni Muslims from an armed insurgency increasingly seen as faltering. He left open the possibility of forgiving insurgents who had killed combatants.

Shiite and Kurdish politicians say they are determined to draw Sunni Arabs into the government and the political process, seeing inclusion as the way to defuse the Sunni-based insurgency.

Iraqi and foreign leaders credit the strong voter turnout in January for helping break the grip of insurgents in some areas. Public dismay at daily violence, as well as security crackdowns that have made it difficult for insurgents to operate and to receive arms and money, are also thought to have helped lower the number of daily bombings and other attacks in March.

Notice how the media coverage on Iraq is going down in proportion to the reduction in attacks?