Friday, April 06, 2007

The Baghdad Welcome Wagon

Shashank Bengali, writing for McClatchy has a look at the new strategy in Baghdad to combat ongoing the civil war.
Call it a Baghdad housewarming.

In the week since the soldiers of the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment from Fort Riley, Kan., moved into an abandoned seminary in southern Baghdad's volatile Mekanik neighborhood, they've been peppered with small-arms fire, three mortar attacks and a rocket-propelled grenade.

The grenade was launched from 150 yards away and hit the windshield of a parked Humvee, but it didn't detonate. An Army sniper equipped with a .240-caliber machine gun had a clear bead on the attacker but didn't pull the trigger because there was a gaggle of children around.
The urban jungle does present new problems on top of the usual problems of counterinsurgency. Still, it is nice to know that the neighbors won't ignore you.

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