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2004-08-24 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-08-24 12:34:42 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 always nice to wake up to some uplifting good news

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-24 8:14:28 AM|| 2004-08-24 8:14:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hopefully we got rid of some more bad guys too.

Posted by Douglas De Bono 2004-08-24 9:27:33 AM|| [http://www.douglasdebono.com] 2004-08-24 9:27:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 HealingIraq today says,

Something else has been bothering me for a while. How come there are NEVER any suicide bombings whenever there is trouble in the south with Sadr? And why do the Sunni areas seem so peaceful?

I don't think he is totally right. In April when Sadr was causing trouble there were lots of attacks in Sunni areas. However, the last two weeks of Sadrfest have been relatively quiet weeks in the Sunni triangle.

Posted by mhw 2004-08-24 10:01:43 AM|| 2004-08-24 10:01:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Probably because of the continued Marine interdiction of Fallujah. It's tight enough to keep the wild boys stuck in the city, and loose enough to not provoke countersiege outrages.

Additionally, there seems to be a fairly hot war going in al Anbar. Most of the friendly casualties are coming from that province, and not anywhere in the south. We don't hear shit about al Anbar due to the media fixation on whatever's within arms-reach of Baghdad. All the English-language Iraqi bloggers are based in the urban areas, so that biases what we're seeing from them as well.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-08-24 11:01:21 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-08-24 11:01:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 on whatever's within arms-reach of Baghdad. or a few hours from the bar.

Posted by B 2004-08-24 11:04:16 AM|| 2004-08-24 11:04:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 well they had at least one possibly two suicide bombing attempted assasinations today near or in Baghdad - so the quiet ends

Posted by mhw 2004-08-24 5:08:01 PM|| 2004-08-24 5:08:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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