Awakenings Watch, continued

"The latest bombings in Anbar and Mosul seem to have focused some attenion on what's going on with the Sunni Awakenings. Awakenings figures have been grumbling for so long over the delays in their integration into the Iraqi security forces and the growing toll taken by the ISI (AQI)'s attacks targeting them that I suspect a lot of people had tuned them out. Last week Al-Hayat published several pieces highlighting the anger of at least some Awakenings leaders over their alleged 'betrayal' by the United States, as they were allegedly being asked to stand down in favor of government forces. A flurry of articles appear today on the same general theme: a state of chaos on the Awakening Councils; questions about the status of Abu Abed of the Amiriya Awakening; claims from an Anbar Salvation Council leader that some of the Awakenings have been penetrated by AQI; and more."
Abu Aadvark

You forgot to mention the reduction in US forces. I know, it's the awakenings and not the increase in US troops that is the hero of last years pushback. But then again...