Posted on 08/29/2006 5:29:19 PM PDT by bnelson44
Over the course of the past week the Iraqi government’s “Operation Together Forward” - a neighborhood-by-neighborhood sweep-and-hold operation - has moved on following a promising start in the neighborhood of Ameriya to include Ghazalia, Kadhimiya, Mansour and Nura (see our recent report, Second Battle of Baghdad Underway, for background). Although some terrorist attacks have still gotten through, indications now are that while July was Baghdad’s worst month, August has seen lower daily rates of both attacks and casualties. Estimated attacks per day have declined from 52 to 31 (MNF-I).
Last week started reasonably well with the commemoration of the Shi’a religious festival of Musa, celebrating the life and martyrdom of Musa bin Jafar al-Kadhim, the seventh imam. While a sniper attack managed to kill at least 20 of the pilgrims, given that there were hundreds of thousands of pilgrims and the scale of recent violence, the attack was not nearly as deadly as it perhaps might have otherwise been. More deadly was this past weekend, when a series of attacks killed at least 60.
A number of important operations have been conducted in Baghdad and other areas in the center of the country. As recounted by Major General William Caldwell at an August 22 press conference:
(Excerpt) Read more at inbrief..org ...
It would appear that the Iraqi forces are beginning to take hold and that the hopes of the lamestream media and Democratic Party of chaos in Iraq by Election Day may be dashed.
Slowly, but it will take time.
I was wondering why the media was looking the other direction and whistling loudly ...
MORE bad news for the democrats
Good wine. As the saying goes....
Night sand temperature, anyway.
BAGHDAD Iraqi government forces have been forced to strike a truce with Shiite militia fighters after at least 28 people, many of them soldiers, were killed in fierce fighting in the southern city of Diwaniya.
On Tuesday, hours after the deal was reached, at least 27 people were killed when a leaking pipeline from which they were siphoning fuel exploded near Diwaniya, Iraqi officials said.
One official said that the fuel scavengers were taking advantage of turmoil in the city Monday that resulted when Iraqi Army soldiers clashed with members of a militia loyal to Moktada al-Sadr, a radical Shiite cleric.
In Diwaniya on Tuesday, news agencies reported that militia members had begun withdrawing from the contested areas of the city, in accord with the truce reached with the Iraqi security forces late Monday.
The fighting on Monday, in which militiamen executed disarmed Iraqi soldiers in a public square, according to an Iraqi general, amounted to the most brazen clashes in recent memory between Iraqi government forces and Sadr's militia
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/29/news/iraq.php
IHT==NYT
Which, they neglected to mention, had absolutly nothing to do with the truce in Baghdad.
All Katrina all the time. That and Jon Benet.
PING
MukTi is Mumbling again!!!
Hi TexKat
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