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MIRACLE OF BAGHDAD
New York Post ^ | 12/29/03 | NILES LATHEM

Posted on 12/29/2003 1:15:10 AM PST by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:18:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

December 29, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Startling new Army statistics show that strife-torn Baghdad - considered the most dangerous city in the world - now has a lower murder rate than New York.

The newest numbers, released by the Army's 1st Infantry Division, reveal that over the past three months, murders and other crimes in Baghdad are decreasing dramatically and that in the month of October, there were fewer murders per capita there than the Big Apple, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baghdad; bang; iraq; murderrate; nyc
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To: kattracks
That is because they don't have the ACLU to contend with.,
21 posted on 12/29/2003 9:59:46 AM PST by ODDITHER
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To: kattracks
bump for later study
22 posted on 12/29/2003 10:26:27 AM PST by 68skylark
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Startling new Army statistics show that strife-torn Baghdad - considered the most dangerous city in the world - now has a lower murder rate than New York.

A tribute to "more guns, less crime" and the justice of our cause.

Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, your crow is on its way--bon appetit.

23 posted on 12/29/2003 5:19:15 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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