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BAGHDAD (AFP) —
The bloodshed in Iraq has dropped by 55 percent since the US military surge began but Iranian
weapons remain a strong threat to the country's security, top US officials said on Sunday.
"Terrorist attacks are at their lowest levels since January 2006. They are 55 percent down since
the beginning of the surge in June," US military spokesman Rear Admiral Gregory Smith told reporters
in Baghdad's Green Zone.
US commanders say President George W. Bush's controversial "surge" strategy of deploying an extra
28,500 troops in Iraq to quell the bloodshed began in February but became fully operational in June.
Since then they say violence has dropped significantly across Iraq and mainly in Baghdad.
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http://icasualties.org/oif/11/20/07 IRIN: Extremists fuel anti-women violence in BasraAnti-women violence in Basra, Iraq's second largest city, about 600 km south of the capital,
Baghdad, has increased markedly in recent months and has forced women to stay indoors,
police and local NGOs have said.
11/20/07 Reuters: Car bomb kills 1, wounds 6 in Baghdad's Bayaa districtA car bomb killed one person and wounded six in the Bayaa district of southwestern Baghdad,
police said. Another police source said two people had been killed.
11/20/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 3 in Baggdad's Baladiyat districtA roadside bomb wounded three people in the Baladiyat district of eastern Baghdad, police said.
11/20/07 Reuters: U.S. forces kill 12 suspected insurgentsU.S. forces killed 12 suspected insurgents, detained five others and found two shackled bodies
in a makeshift detention facility during operations against al Qaeda along the Tigris River
valley on Sunday and Monday, the U.S. military said.
11/20/07 Reuters: 3 al Qaeda fighters, one policeman killed in gunbattles in HadithaThree al Qaeda fighters and one policeman were killed in gunbattles in the town of Haditha,
250 km (155 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said. Five militants were detained in the clashes.
11/20/07 Reuters: 3 civilians wounded by roadside bomb in eastern BaghdadA roadside bomb targeting a U.S. military convoy wounded three civilians in Baladiyat
district of eastern Baghdad, police said.
11/20/07 Reuters: Iraqi army kills two suspected insurgents, arrested 154Iraqi army soldiers killed two suspected insurgents and arrested 154 in different
areas of Iraq during the past 24 hours, the Defence Ministry said.
11/20/07 Reuters: 4 bodies pulled from Tigris riverPolice found the bodies of four men in the Tigris river near the town of Suwayra, 60 km
(40 miles) south of Baghdad, on Monday, police said. All four had been tortured and shot.
11/20/07 Reuters: 3 Bodies found in DhuluiyaPolice found the bodies of three men shot and bound in the town of Dhuluiya, 70 km
(45 miles) north of Baghdad, the Joint Iraqi-U.S. Coordination Centre said.
11/20/07 Reuters: Bodies of 4 Iraqi soldiers found in SamarraThe bodies of four Iraqi soldiers who had been tortured and shot in the head were
received by a hospital in the city of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad,
on Monday, the Joint Iraqi-U.S. Coordination Centre said.
11/20/07 Reuters: Body of police major found near SamarraThe body of police major Saad Jumaa was found near Samarra after he was kidnapped
on Monday, the Joint Iraqi-U.S. Coordination Centre said.
11/20/07 Reuters: Police discover weapon cache in Shi'ite mosquePolice discovered a weapon cache in a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km
(25 miles) south of Baghdad, on Monday, police said. (Editing by Paul Tait)
11/20/07 AP: Soldier Decries AWOL Arrest at HospitalA soldier facing his second tour of duty in Iraq said in a jailhouse interview Monday that
he was at a hospital seeking mental help when he was arrested in the middle of the night
for allegedly being absent without leave.
11/19/07 AP: US Denies Americans Detained in ShootingIraqi troops detained 43 people...in a convoy run by a U.S.-contracted firm after an Iraqi
woman was wounded in a Baghdad shooting involving their vehicles, the U.S. military said.
It denied reports that two Americans were also arrested.
11/19/07 AP: General Says N. Iraq Most Violent RegionDespite a decline in violence in Iraq, northern Iraq has become more violent than other regions
as al-Qaida and other militants move there to avoid coalition operations elsewhere, the region's
top U.S. commander said Monday...
11/19/07 wjactv: Boswell Soldier Wounded In IraqArmy Specialist Jacob Whipley of Boswell...was shot five times in the chest, but a bullet proof
vest saved him from serious injury. He was also shot several times in the arm. Whipley is in a
military hospital in Germany.
11/19/07 AP: Military Keeps News Photog Charges SecretThe U.S. military is planning to seek a criminal case in an Iraqi court against an award-winning
Associated Press photographer. But the military is refusing to disclose what evidence or
accusations would be presented.
11/19/07 Reuters: Grand jury opens Blackwater shooting probeA U.S. grand jury has opened an investigation into the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi citizens
in September by Blackwater private security employees guarding a U.S. Embassy convoy in Baghdad,
ABC News reported on Monday.
11/19/07 MNF: Soldier re-enlists hours after IED injurySpc. Christopher Hoyt, an infantryman with 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker
Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division from Fort Lewis, Wash., suffered severe lacerations
to his legs and torso when an IED exploded near him...
11/19/07 AP: Will Baghdad's relative quiet last?The drop in bombings and killings in Baghdad is a welcome change from years of slaughter.
But U.S. commanders and many Iraqis fear the relative quiet won't last without substantial
political agreements among the country's sectarian leaders.
11/19/07 CSM: Rising player with a vision for Shiite IraqAmmar al-Hakim is presiding over an Iraqi Shiite building boom. His austere Shaheed al-Mihrab
Foundation has raised 400 mosques in Iraq since 2003. It's building the largest seminary here
in the holy city of Najaf and opening a chain of schools...
11/19/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 2 people in northeastern BaghdadA roadside bomb wounded two people on Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad, police said.
11/19/07 Reuters: 1 policeman killed, 2 wounded in MosulOne policeman was killed and two wounded in a drive-by shooting at a police checkpoint
in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
11/19/07 Reuters: 3 bodies found in Baghdad on MondayThree bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Monday, police said.
11/19/07 Reuters: Katyusha rocket kills 6 family membersSix members of the same family were killed when a Katyusha rocket hit their house
in the oil hub of Basra, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.
Three of the dead were children.
11/19/07 AP: Iraqi Says 2 American Guards DetainedIraqi soldiers detained two American and one Italian security guards along with several
other foreigners traveling Monday in a private security convoy after they opened fire in
Baghdad, wounding one woman, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
11/19/07 Reuters: Dusty Iraqi border post tries to stem Iranian flowAt a dusty border speck on the map where tanks once fought a bitter war in a brutal
landscape, trucks now stretch to the horizon, a sign of growing contact between former
enemies. Tensions still simmer and Zurbatia has become an outpost...
11/19/07 Reuters: Gunmen attack police station, kill 3 policemenGunmen attacked a police station, killing three policemen in a village north of Baquba,
65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
11/19/07 Reuters: Iraqi army kills six suspected militants, detains 69The Iraqi army killed six suspected militants and detained 69 others in different parts
of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.
11/19/07 Reuters: Iraq's displaced struggle to restart their livesThe United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said
this week the number of internally displaced people now stands at 2.3 million --
almost double the 1.2 million displaced ahead of the Samarra bombing.
11/19/07 AP: Iraqi TV station says kidnapped reporter freed in BaghdadAn Iraqi television reporter who was kidnapped in Baghdad last week was freed Monday, his
station said Saturday. Muntadhar al-Zaidi, a 28-year-old reporter for the Iraqi satellite
channel al-Baghdadiyah, was released and appeared to be in good health...
11/19/07 Reuters: Decomposed body found in LatifiyaThe decomposed body of a man was found in the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south
of Baghdad, on Sunday night, police said.
11/19/07 Reuters: Body found in IskandariyaThe body of a man who had been shot in the head was found on Sunday night in the town
of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
11/19/07 Reuters: Child's body found in River near KutPolice retrieved the body of a 3-year-old boy from a river on Sunday in the city of Kut,
170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said
11/19/07 Reuters: 2 bodies bearing signs of torture retrieved from the Tigris RiverPolice retrieved the bodies of two men bearing signs of torture from the Tigris River on
Sunday in the town of Suwayra, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said
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