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CBS' David Martin followed up on yesterday's reporting from Baghdad by his colleague Lara Logan that the US military is no longer fighting an anti-Sunni counterinsurgency. Martin described how newfound cooperation from Sunni tribal sheikhs has led to a successful helicopter offensive against al-Qaeda guerrillas. "Tips from Iraqis are leading to a growing number of airstrikes," Martin reported from the Pentagon, as he showed us cockpit footage of a tree line attack by an Apache. His statistics were less impressive: in the past seven weeks 100 newly-deployed helicopters have killed just 63 al-Qaeda militants. CBS followed up with the first part of its two-parter Bravo Company Coming Home on the return of the Red Bulls, a unit of the Minnesota National Guard. "By the time they got home, this group that included cops, welders, students and teachers had served 22 months," Cynthia Bowers told us, more than a year of which was in "the hell hole of Fallujah." The 2,600-strong company suffered three fatalities.
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