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A couple of Iraq stories aired, one from Baghdad, one from the home front. CBS' Lara Logan toured the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad where she found a rift between erstwhile fellow opponents of the US military occupation. Former insurgents in the "hardcore Sunni neighborhood" have now joined the USArmy's Fifth Cavalry and turned against local al-Qaeda fighters, apparently disaffected with the latter's "brutal tactics." The Iraqi government, however, is "reluctant" to support an alliance between Sunni fighters and US troops. She asked a masked member of the Amiriyah Freedom Fighters whether his new loyalty was for temporary convenience: "If you can defeat al-Qaeda will you go back to fighting the Americans?" "No." Never?" "No."
On the home front, ABC's Jim Avila took A Closer Look at military children whose parents divorce. Child custody laws require family courts to consider "what is best for the child" above everything else. "The child bonds with the parent who is at home not the one that is overseas" so courts routinely grant permanent custody to the civilian parent rather than the divorcing military spouse who is off at war. Those rulings, soldier parents told Avila, are worse than "a Dear John letter."
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