Giambastiani mengatakan ia telah berbicara dengan Letnan Jenderal David Petraeus, komandan pasukan AS di Irak, Rabu, dan ia menyampaikan bahwa pembunuhan sektarian berkurang.
Giambastiani said he had talked to Lieutenant General David Petraeus the commander of US forces in Iraq on Wednesday and he relayed that the sectarian killings are down.