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IRAQI ATTACKS DROP BY ONE-THIRD SINCE APRIL
Middle East Newsline ^

Posted on 10/09/2004 2:59:47 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Despite a spate of mass-casualty suicide bombings, insurgency attacks against the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq have dropped significantly over the last five months.

A study by Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group Inc., a private firm that operates in Iraq, said the average number of daily attacks in Iraq has been 80 during September. This marked a decrease of 33 percent since April 2004, when 120 daily attacks were reported.

April marked the peak of violence in Iraq with the U.S.-led coalition fighting both a Sunni and Shi'ite revolt. The worst violence took place in Faluja as well as Basra, Kut and Najaf.

The report by the Las Vegas-based Special Operations Consulting asserted that the Sunni Triangle remained the focus of the insurgency. The company said that in September, the lion's share of attacks was in Sunni provinces in northern and western Iraq.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: iraq; progress; quagmirenot

1 posted on 10/09/2004 2:59:48 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Howdy LTGM! Love it when a plan comes together.


2 posted on 10/09/2004 3:01:21 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (I want to have fanatical henchmen when I grow up.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

bttt


3 posted on 10/09/2004 3:04:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (We have low inflation and and low unemployment.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I do not find any truth to this report. I just heard sKerry and Edtards tell me that it is up more each month and it is just getting worse. /8scarasm off


4 posted on 10/09/2004 3:07:03 PM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry; supported by, financed by, trained by, guided by, revered by, in favor of, Communists.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

There are fewer, but they are more desperate and deadly.


5 posted on 10/09/2004 3:40:36 PM PDT by nonkultur
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To: stockpirate

I am unsuccessfully trying to find one of them quoting that in a debate. Can you find it? I think that them saying it gets worse each month and that article should be sent to factcheck.org


6 posted on 10/09/2004 4:05:36 PM PDT by blogblogginaway (When will they learn to check and recheck the facts!)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

WHY, pray tell, do you have that screen name???


7 posted on 10/09/2004 4:32:28 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat

http://www.freerepublic.com/~lesbianthespiangymna/


8 posted on 10/09/2004 4:36:57 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: blogblogginaway

Edtards said it in his debate with Cheney and Kerry said it his debate with Bush.


9 posted on 10/09/2004 5:51:32 PM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry; supported by, financed by, trained by, guided by, revered by, in favor of, Communists.)
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