A friend just sent me this link to a website for the Baghdad Prayer Patrol that I wish I had known about a long time ago. This is definitely not the type of news we hear from the mainstream media. Here's just one encouraging passage from a soldier "on the ground": 

Something happened in June, I (and many others) don't know what it was, cannot quite put our finger on it, but something changed. Good people in Iraq started to stand-up, good people began to join with us. The back of Al Qaida began to break. We achieved a tipping point of sorts, the Iraqi Security forces, long berated for a lack of ability, began to take a pre-emptive role in security operations. Good people [started] coming forward and telling coalition forces where the bad guys and their tools of war were hidden.... [The] more we did, the more the good people of Iraq came forward with even more information.

This message is on the first page, and it's a plea I hope we all take to heart: "There are still bad things happening in Iraq, but because of your prayers, there are some bad things that aren't happening. Stay on Patrol, God is at work."