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Militant Group Is Out of Baghdad, U.S. Says
The New York Times ^ | 11/8/2007 | DAMIEN CAVE

Posted on 11/08/2007 8:36:17 AM PST by Tennessean4Bush

BAGHDAD, Nov. 7 — American forces have routed Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the Iraqi militant network, from every neighborhood of Baghdad, a top American general said today, allowing American troops involved in the “surge” to depart as planned.

Maj. Gen. Joseph F. Fil Jr., commander of United States forces in Baghdad, also said that American troops had yet to clear some 13 percent of the city, including Sadr City and several other areas controlled by Shiite militias. But, he said, “there’s just no question” that violence had declined since a spike in June.

“Murder victims are down 80 percent from where they were at the peak,” and attacks involving improvised bombs are down 70 percent, he said.

General Fil attributed the decline to improvements in the Iraqi security forces, a cease-fire ordered by the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, the disruption of financing for insurgents, and, most significant, Iraqis’ rejection of “the rule of the gun.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedainiraq; aqi; badnewsfordummies; iraq; nyt; progress
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To: PGalt

21 posted on 11/08/2007 9:35:09 AM PST by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: river rat

danke


22 posted on 11/08/2007 9:36:29 AM PST by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: Tennessean4Bush

I saw it too


23 posted on 11/08/2007 9:37:03 AM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: Tennessean4Bush

Christians were being Martyred in Baghdad 6 mos ago.

Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops


24 posted on 11/08/2007 9:37:09 AM PST by bray (Think "Betray U.S." Think Democrat)
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To: Allegra

Rush said this article was on page A 19. The Times probably choked to even publish this good news.


25 posted on 11/08/2007 9:37:48 AM PST by steve7
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To: Tennessean4Bush

alas...

U.S. commander says militants routed from Baghdad
International Herald Tribune (NY Times) | November 7, 2007 | Damien Cave
Posted on 11/07/2007 9:15:01 PM EST by Aristotelian
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1922560/posts


26 posted on 11/08/2007 9:43:14 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Thursday, November 8, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
Yeah, as I posted earlier in this thread, the real takeaway is not the story, I saw it yesterday. The big news was that the NYTimes printed it and gave it a decent headline. Of course, they placed in on page A19, I understand, but this is still amazing. The good news is trickling in to their newspaper.
27 posted on 11/08/2007 9:49:20 AM PST by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: Tennessean4Bush
My translations services are always available for English to English.  Just ask... (  :->)

Militant Group Is Out of Baghdad
, U.S. Says.
 

Any questions?

28 posted on 11/08/2007 9:49:44 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Mrs Crinton have Pay Feava. There she go now. "Ah Hsu Ahhh Hsu Ah Hsu!" Crintons worth every penny.)
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To: Tennessean4Bush; SolidWood
Although it is on page A19 still they have to report about VICTORY. By March 2008 the news of VICTORY in Iraq will be on page one despite all the efforts of liberals and their media to hide it.
29 posted on 11/08/2007 9:50:31 AM PST by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: Tennessean4Bush
Hey, did you see that photo that Yon posted of the Christians and muslims working together to put a cross back up on a church in Baghdad? It was incredibly moving to me.

It's beautiful, isn't it? Peace is breaking out all over this place. Iraqis have always pretty much gotten along regardless of their religion. It was al Qaeda and Iran's thugs (Mookie Sadr's pals) coming in that caused all of the divisiveness. The people themselves aren't really that way at all and want to be united just as Iraqis again.

I took this photo in September from a Black Hawk helicopter. That church in the foreground is a Christian church very close to my base in central Baghdad and the attendance there has been increasing recently.


30 posted on 11/08/2007 9:51:29 AM PST by Allegra (Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
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To: Tennessean4Bush

Pelosi and Co. are desperately trying to get us out of there before our victory is complete. She’ll undoubtedly be playing the “it’s a civil war” card again in the next few days during the lastest “force the troops home” vote despite the very encouraging facts stated in this article.


31 posted on 11/08/2007 9:57:49 AM PST by Mr. Mojo (“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.")
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To: Tennessean4Bush

Rush noted that this news was buried on page A-19. Front page is same old global warming cr@p.


32 posted on 11/08/2007 9:59:48 AM PST by 50sDad (Liberals: Never Happy, Never Grateful, Never Right.)
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To: Lazarus Longer

Irony is, of course, that under the Surge, many troops will be home by Christmas...and the dems will probably take credit for it.


33 posted on 11/08/2007 10:01:17 AM PST by 50sDad (Liberals: Never Happy, Never Grateful, Never Right.)
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To: mnehrling

Would you be calling them some variant of “kitty cat”?


34 posted on 11/08/2007 10:08:46 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Loyal Buckeye

Is that an actual quote?


35 posted on 11/08/2007 10:09:30 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Tennessean4Bush
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36 posted on 11/08/2007 10:16:44 AM PST by rfp1234 (Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. ---James Branch Cabell)
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To: MrB
Is that an actual quote?

Fake, but accurate.

37 posted on 11/08/2007 10:17:37 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Loyal Buckeye

Hey, if they can do it, why not do it ourselves?


38 posted on 11/08/2007 10:19:01 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Tennessean4Bush

Yes, I believe that was indeed a flying pig! Did they really say that al Qaeda was defeated in Baghdad?

It must be freezing in hell today.


39 posted on 11/08/2007 10:22:21 AM PST by Blue State Insurgent (Thompson Democrats)
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To: MrB; Loyal Buckeye

While yes, fake but accurate, a democrat congressman or senator (name is escaping me at the moment) actually said that terorrist attacks and killings are down in Iraq because there is no one left for the terrorists to kill!


40 posted on 11/08/2007 10:22:41 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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