Roggio’s Daily Reports
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I’ve always enjoyed Bill Roggio’s counterterrorism blogging efforts-he’s one of the very few bloggers I would actually consider calling a journalist. He’s now writing daily Iraq reports for The Weekly Standard blog. I recommend reading them; his reports are always full of good nuts-and-bolts information that you hardly ever hear from the more sensationalistic, sound-bite-oriented news outlets.
Anyway, Roggio’s report from yesterday tells us that after a month of “surging” in Iraq, “deaths are down by about 75 percent, terrorists killed up by over 80 percent and detentions of suspects up by 1000 percent.” I didn’t think the surge was going to have much effect, but this seems like good news. Though Roggio wisely notes that it’s still too early to make any definitive conclusions. It also seems likely that the insurgents simply left Baghdad until the surge is over. The hope is that new security measures will make it difficult for the insurgents to return later.
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