U.S. army says fewer IED attacks in one part of Baghdad [Reuters suffering setbacks in WOT]

Reuters ^ | March 16, 2007

[lonestar67]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The latest security crackdown in one part of Baghdad has led to significantly fewer attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces with improvised explosive devices, an American Army commander said on Friday.

Col. J.B. Burton, who heads a brigade patrolling a 36-square-mile (93-square-km) area of western Baghdad where about 1 million people live, cautioned that difficult work lay ahead and that the United States was not declaring victory.

"It is important to note that the overall effects of this new Baghdad security plan ... will not be seen in days or weeks, but over the course of months," Burton told reporters during a video conference from Iraq.

He only provided figures for his area and not for the rest of Baghdad and Anbar province, where U.S. forces are trying to quell unrelenting violence.

A roadside bomb on Thursday killed four U.S. soldiers in eastern Baghdad, and two car bombs exploded in Baghdad.

[lonestar67]

The surge is working in some of the most difficult parts of the American mission --western Bagdad and Anbar.

Reuters does its typical job of trying to contain the spread of success.

[mmanager]

Lincoln kept changing generals until he found his warrior. I believe we finally have one that is taking it to the bad guys and is asking for ~10,000 more troops.

I believe he can have this completely turned around by the end of the year with crap on RATS faces. They know it and I believe just like the tax cuts, they know it will work.

With them, it is nothing about country, it's about politics and power.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good news bump!

[hermgem]

As things improve goal posts are moved further away.
Expect less, but more sophisticated attacks, however the "good old" terror days similar to those French riots by their Muslim population are over.