General: Iraq attacks on occupiers up sharply
San Jose Mercury News
10/13/06
Armed attacks on U.S. soldiers and Iraqis in Baghdad have increased by 43 percent since midsummer, despite an ongoing American-led campaign to secure individual neighborhoods, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Thursday. Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV said violence was down by 11 percent in neighborhoods where the sweeps had been focused. But that decline was more than offset by more attacks elsewhere, and Caldwell said the military was expecting the level of violence to keep rising during the remaining weeks of the Muslim month of Ramadan...
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15743539.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
10/13/06
Armed attacks on U.S. soldiers and Iraqis in Baghdad have increased by 43 percent since midsummer, despite an ongoing American-led campaign to secure individual neighborhoods, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Thursday. Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV said violence was down by 11 percent in neighborhoods where the sweeps had been focused. But that decline was more than offset by more attacks elsewhere, and Caldwell said the military was expecting the level of violence to keep rising during the remaining weeks of the Muslim month of Ramadan...
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15743539.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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