Saturday, June 16, 2007
40 %
That is how much of Baghdad is "controlled" by the various security forces.
Security forces in Baghdad have full control in only 40 percent of the city five months into the pacification campaign, a top American general said Saturday as U.S. troops began an offensive against two al-Qaida strongholds on the capital's southern outskirts...So Gen. Odie Cologne says 40% of Baghdad is as safe as an Indiana marketplace. Just another 11% and Our Dear Embattled Leader can claim that he owns the city and has a mandate to rule. In the meantime, the usual numbers of bodies are found and the bombs still explode.
...Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno said American troops launched the offensive in Baghdad's Arab Jabour and Salman Pac neighborhoods Friday night. It was the first time in three years that U.S. soldiers entered those areas, where al-Qaida militants build car bombs and launch Katyusha rockets at American bases and Shiite Muslim neighborhoods.
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