ABC reports the surge is working.

But several square blocks of Baghdad are safe(r)! Fenian! Why do you hate the American Broadcasting Company?

 

A decline in violence might be a good thing, but it also might mean that the insurgency is taking time to position itself as a stronger entity.

Anyone see the film the Battle of Algiers? It's the textbook for this sort of insurgency.

 

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003567503

I wonder how E&P got the story.

 

The folks at the Post don't watch enough ABC.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/03/AR2007040301948.html


U.S. and Iraqi officials said in interviews that while U.S. and Iraqi forces have focused their security efforts largely on Baghdad, violence is spreading to other parts of Iraq, and that they have noticed a rise in sectarian killings in recent weeks.