Planted story in the US press?

I have no evidence that this is a fake/planted story, but notice the sourcing on this. One named source who doesn't seem to be have any great position in the insurgency, a "resident" who is a "former army officer,"and a "Baathist insurgent leader" who is not willing to give his name.

And from these sources, I am to gather that the whole insurgency aims to lay down its weapons and vote?

Saddam Hussein loyalists who violently opposed January elections have made an about-face as Thursday's polls near, urging fellow Sunni Arabs to vote and warning al Qaeda militants not to attack.

In a move unthinkable in the bloody run-up to the last election, guerrillas in the western insurgent heartland of Anbar province say they are even prepared to protect voting stations from fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.

So the guerillas are going to protect the voting stations? Maybe I'm just too cynical after finding out that the US military is planting psyops stories. Whattya think?

And, just coincidentally, the NYTimes has a giant piece on the US military's "information war" today as well.