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| Last Edited | kal May 14, 2006 06:55am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | I'm going to add the good news about the war in Iraq to this thread. It's news that's usually buried deep in an article or ignored by the mainstream media.
14. "Since March 2003, 11,600 construction projects have been started and 9,340 projects valued at $9.3 billion have been completed," - Kathye A. Johnson, director of reconstruction for the Gulf Region Division - Army Corps of Engineers. - May, 2006
13. According to Maj. Gen. Lynch, there are currently 254,000 trained Iraqi security forces in country and 325,000 expected by the end of the year...Maj. Gen. Lynch also pointed out that nearly 30 percent of our company-level and above missions are independent Iraqi Security Force missions…Iraqi-planned, Iraqi-conducted and most of all, Iraqi led. - May, 2006
12. Iraqi and Coalition intelligence estimates that infiltration of foreign fighters into Iraq is averaging about 75 a month (with a range from two dozen or so up to 100), which is down significantly from 2005, when the average was about 125 a month. - Strategy Page, May 10 2006
11. Iraqi soldiers assumed control of part of Salah al Din Province from the U.S. Army 1-8 Combined Arms Battalion in a Transfer of Authority ceremony at an Iraqi army outpost near Balad, Iraq, April 15. The 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division is assuming control of an area of responsibility that encompasses Balad, Al Duluyah and Yethrib, as well as the smaller villages surrounding these cities. - US DoD April 18, 2006.
10. Today, the Khor Az Zubayr Power Plant is officially operating under the Ministry of Electricity and providing 250 additional mega watts of power generation to the Iraqi national power grid...The 2 new reactors adds 5 percent more power to the national grid. - US Army Corp of Engineers, April 4, 2006.
9. According to the Pentagon, 30 American servicemembers died in Iraq in March, the lowest number since February 2004. In fact, the number of U.S. casualties in Iraq has been |
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