Turning the corner, moving in the right direction...

Whatever the administration euphamism is today the happy news out of Iraq just keeps coming:

Apparent Death Squad Is Linked to Iraqi Ministry

By Nelson Hernandez and Bassam Sebti
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, February 17, 2006; Page A01

BAGHDAD, Feb. 16 -- U.S. and Iraqi authorities discovered an apparent death squad operating within the country's Interior Ministry last month when Iraqi troops prevented a group of highway patrol officers from killing a Sunni Arab man the officers had arrested, an American military spokesman said Thursday.

The 22 men, dressed in the camouflage uniforms of special police commandos, were stopped by chance at an Iraqi army checkpoint in northern Baghdad, according to Maj. Gen. Joseph Peterson, who gave a detailed account of the incident to the Chicago Tribune for an article published Thursday. When the soldiers asked the police what they were doing, they responded bluntly: They were going to execute their captive. Instead, they wound up in jail.

Yep, heading in the right direction all right...