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.
I was wondering why the media was looking the other direction and whistling loudly ...
MORE bad news for the democrats
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
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While the outcome of Together Forward is by no means assured, the statistics since the major clearing operations began in early August are encouraging. The operations are having a positive effect in reducing the level of violence in Baghdad. “Attacks within the Baghdad province averaged about 23 attacks per day over the past week, which is lower than the monthly average for July. The average daily murder rate in Baghdad province has dropped 46 percent from July to August. And if you look to just the past few weeks, from the 7th through the 25th of August, the murder rate has dropped 50 percent over the daily rate for July,” said Maj. Gen. Caldwell.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692257/posts
More good news you'll never find in the Stone-age press!
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