MG R. Lynch stated this week -

Bordering on peace

“We believe that 90 percent of the suicide attacks

in Iraq are conducted by foreign fighters. Last year

this time, across Iraq, we were averaging about 75

suicide attacks a day. Now we’re averaging about 24

a day. One of the reasons for that drawdown is not

that Zarqawi and al-Qaida doesn’t want to do it anymore,

but effective border operations have been capturing

foreign nationals at the border.

“Just before the first of the year, we were averaging

about 44 captured foreign nationals per month,

and now we’re down to less than half of that.”

Iraq’s experts

“In the western portion of Baghdad, mosque caretakers

called the Iraqi Army and said, ‘Hey, there is a

suspected IED in the vicinity of this mosque.’ The

mosque wasn’t an active mosque, but it clearly is a

cultural site.

“The Iraqi Army responded - the 3rd Brigade of the

6th Iraqi Army Division. They brought in that division’s

own explosive ordnance detachment to find the IED

and to detonate the IED before it could detonate itself.

Found and cleared.”

Now thats some good stuff, too bad you won't hear it anywhere else.