EVEN BY MSM STANDARDS THEY WHIFFED THAT STORY PRETTY BADLY:

Cleric agrees to end boycott of Iraqi government: Al-Sadr and loyalists walked out three weeks ago to protest Bush meeting (MSNBC, 12/21/06)

Muqtada al-Sadr has agreed to allow his supporters to rejoin the Iraqi government and end a three-week boycott protesting the prime minister’s meeting with President Bush, officials close to the radical Shiite cleric said Thursday.