Kirwan, an 11-year-old Kurdish boy from northern Iraq, sits in bed with his mother Bahija, before entering the operating room to undergo emergency heart surgery at an Israeli hospital in Holon, near Tel Aviv October 15, 2007. Two Iraqi children arrived in Israel on Thursday for emergency heart surgery, organized by Israeli-based organization "Save A Child's Heart". (REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen)
More good news for America and bad news for Democrats.
Baghdad violence drops dramatically since May in northwest Baghdad.
MNF-Iraq reported:
CAMP VICTORY, Iraq – A reduction in violence in neighborhoods on Baghdad’s northwest side and an improved security situation are allowing reconstruction efforts and economic gains to flourish, according to the commander of the brigade that has patrolled the area for nearly a year.And, here is another report that Al-Qaeda in Iraq has been routed.
The implementation of the Baghdad Security Plan, Operation Fardh Al-Qanoon, allowed the Dagger Brigade to move into neighborhoods with a permanent presence, Burton added, with the end result being an 85 percent reduction in violence in the area since May.
"Of our 95 ‘Mulhallas,’ or neighborhoods—58 of them are now considered under control, 33 remain in a clearing status with violence continuing to go down, and four remain in a disrupt status,” Burton noted.
He said murders in the area, which a year ago occurred more than 150 times each week, are down to an average of five a week.
Meanwhile, Bob Owens and Murdoc question the WaPo's reporting.
Once again, you can count on the Left to spin the news negative.
It looks like the books are not so cooked after all.
MORE... The drop in violence is not good for everyone.
Well there is a dark lining on this silver cloud of less violence in Baghdad...
ReplyDeleteFrom the always anti-Bush & anti-war against terror folks over at McClatchy News: As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch
At what's believed to be the world's largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn't good.
A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that's cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.
Few people have a better sense of the death rate in Iraq...
Damn it! Its all Bush's fault!...
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ReplyDeleteGod Bless Israel, God Bless the Iraqi Children..
and God curse anti-Liberation journalists!!
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