The only way you might know that the Surge is already underway in Baghdad and that it is succeeding is that the bombings Sunday were trumpeted as big news in the mainstream U.S. media. It would not have been worth so much notice before, but now the war is being tested against a higher standard.
"No news is good news," indeed.
The best on-the-spot-reporting in iraq is often in Iraq the Model, the blog by the estimable Fadhil brothers, all three of whom are doctors who had to learn English to get through medical school and now manage to tell the story as Western reporters seldom see it...or report it.