Major General Kelly: the calm in Anbar province is 'stunning'

Good news from Anbar:

The U.S. commander charged with operations in western Iraq called the lull in violence "stunning" as he returned to Iraq for his third tour of duty.

Maj. Gen. John Kelly with the U.S. Marines said the level of violence in the Anbar cities of Fallujah and Ramadi was markedly down from the levels three years ago."It's stunning to me how low (violence levels) are," Kelly said.

"When I left here three years ago, you could not go into the cities -- Fallujah, Ramadi, places like that -- without a rifle company of Marines, and it was a gunfight going in and a gunfight going out."