Posted on 12/19/2006 5:48:14 PM PST by melt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attacks in Iraq on U.S.-led forces, local security personnel and civilians have surged 22 percent to record levels, the Pentagon said in its latest quarterly report on Iraq published on Monday.
The report also noted a rise in civilian casualties and said this was directly linked to the rise of sectarian death squads, which were helped by elements of Iraqi forces.
The report was released on the day Robert Gates was sworn in as U.S. defense secretary and as President George W. Bush considers changes to his Iraq policy. Gates replaces Donald Rumsfeld, heavily criticized for his handling of the war.
"Attack levels -- both overall and in all specific measurable categories -- were the highest on record during this reporting period," said the report, "Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq," produced for the U.S. Congress.
The average number of attacks per week rose to 959 in the three months from August 12 to November 10, from 784 in the previous three months, according to figures provided by the Pentagon to accompany the report
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NOW, Mr. and Mrs. moderaters please let this comment stay for at least 5 minutes, then delete it and ban me for what ever period of time you feel is correct.
What the hell does all our power have , if we are too damn scared too use it ?
Good grief. Now Reuters and Yahoo have become publishing arms of al Jazeera!
Thanks for letting that stay.
Comments?
Al Reuters has been for a long time now. Yahoo's more the distribution network, the camel that Reuter's is riding...
I couldn't have put it better! : )
A record in Iraq? No, one night in 1943, in one sector behind the German lines. Russian partisans.
There is real war and there is this slow motion civil strife stuff that has the left in such a tizzy. It is all press.
In WW2, they also had "Lord Haw Haw", Tokyo Rose and Life Magazine.
I suppose we should celebrate their coming out party. We know what CNN was willing to trade to get their exclusives from Saddam...
And what do all of these journalists think their lives would be like if the caliphate comes to be and they are living under Sharia Law, I wonder.
mosque- I doubt that will get deleted- a LOT of people feel that way- why? Because it's the truth- plain and simple- Groups like CAIR- the ACLU- the EU- the U.N have made sure that they've sissified those who would fight terrorism while enabling the terrorists to do whatever they want to us.- Now, I'm not suggesting the Troops are sissies by any means- it's just that we've been held to sissified standards that have ensured our innability to win wars decisively! http://sacredscoop.com
If More Folks Read MELDT and meldt.com they wouldn't
be in the dark...!
Or all the feminists who want to celebrate ethnic diversity but sort of look over what's happening to women in a lot of the places where salafi sharia and traditional tribal rules are dominant? Or the Swedish government which seems to be trying to pretend away the root cause of the huge increase in violent crime in their cities because it interferes with the dominant ideology?
Just in case anyone was wondering how reliable or objective this article was, need wonder no more!
Michael Moore is a negative imprimatur, if there is such a thing...
Hey,Lady !!! NO CUSSIN' !!!
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I can usually see an opposite point of view if I put some effort into the effort...
I cannot for the life of me understand the thinking of the feminists or the old hippies who cut their teeth on the Free Speech movement as true believers when it comes to the annihilation of Western Civilization... Sharia Law has no place for the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, nor even a basic, "..love your neighbor."
It's not just knee-jerk Bush hatred, they practiced active blindness all during the 90's as this war was heating up...
I'm sorry, I should have used the euphemism... Big Fat Ugly Hairy Ba$tard.
Please forgive me. :-(
That's a good way of putting it...an active blindness....
Any ideas why?
I can only thin that they saw something else, but what?
Or they 'wanted' to see something else. Something mesmerized them into being distracted... what or who was that?
But then these are people who thought Communism could provide Utopia, even after they knew the history of Stalin, Lenin, etal.
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