Reid urges Iraqi leaders to unite
Defence Secretary John Reid is in Iraq to tell local politicians that their highest priority should be to form a government of national unity. This would show insurgents they could not divide Iraqis, he told the BBC ahead of a meeting in Baghdad. Three years after the US-led military action, Mr Reid rejected claims that the country was wracked by violence and gripped by civil war. He said there had been progress and most of the country was under control. Full Story