Little Happens In Iraq, Makes News

This can't be the result of the surge, right?

BAGHDAD — Baghdad experienced one of its least violent days in months Thursday when there were two reported bombings and one fatality.

The relative lull in violence came in the third week of a U.S.-Iraqi plan to improve security in Baghdad. President Bush has ordered an increase of 17,500 U.S. troops in the capital to conduct house-to-house searches and help disarm sectarian militias.

A U.S. military report said Monday that the number of roadside bombs was down 20% since the security initiative began in mid-February and sectarian murders were at their lowest levels in a year.

Of course, the USA Today article/hit piece does go on to find other ways to highlight any violence they can find. Of course, they failed to mention any violence in Camden or Washington, D.C., for comparison.

Meanwhile

CAMP TAJI, Iraq, March. 2, 2007 — Multi-National Division – Baghdad soldiers assisted in the medical evacuation of a two-year-old Iraqi girl March 1 after she fell from a truck near the city of Mushada, Iraq.

Troopers from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment were on a patrol when they came upon a wounded child and her father, who told the soldiers his daughter had fallen from the vehicle.

The soldiers immediately called for an urgent medical evacuation.

The child was taken to surgery, and her condition is not known at the time of the printing. A far cry from the evil torturing in the dead of night soldiers we keep hearing about, eh?

Also,

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2007 – Over the past two days in Iraq, coalition forces killed eight terrorists and found a car bomb and weapons cache, Iraqi forces detained five suspects, and insurgents killed four civilians with mortar fire.

Coalition forces killed eight terrorists yesterday during a raid targeting al Qaeda in Iraq operating in the Salman Pak region. Intelligence reports indicate a significant number of individuals involved with the al Qaeda terrorist network currently operate in the area, officials said. Activities in this area have been linked to a roadside-bomb and car-bomb network. Terrorists in the area are also believed to be involved in smuggling weapons and facilitating foreign fighters. 

YUSUFIYAH, Iraq, March 2, 2007 — Multi-National Division, Baghdad soldiers continue to find weapons caches along Mullah Fayad Highway during an ongoing operation southwest of Baghdad, Feb. 28.

As reported earlier, soldiers from Company A, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) found a massive cache along the highway as part of Operation Commando Viper, an operation intended to deny terrorists’ freedom of movement in southwest Baghdad.

After continuing to scour the area, the ‘Golden Dragons’ found an additional six caches along the highway, just west of Yusufiyah, March 1.

I supposed the surge is kinda, you know, working.

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One Response to “Little Happens In Iraq, Makes News”

  1. beth says:

    I was noticing this earlier today. The MSM doesn’t seem interested unless they are killing American Soldiers.

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