The Dangers of Deadlines (The Weekly Standard)
There is perhaps no greater danger to the success of American efforts in Iraq than the prospect of a congressionally mandated timeline for withdrawal.
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Reconciliation in and around Baghdad
Sep 15, 2007 - Institute for t...
The refrain of ‘concerned citizens’ and ‘reconciliation’, so familiar in the news emanating from places like Anbar and Diyala, has found a degree of resonance in the Iraqi capital.
Concerned Local Citizen Groups in Diyala Province
Sep 12, 2007 - Institute for t...
For more information, please see page 21 of Iraq Report #7 located here
Knights of Ameriya: Baghdad
Sep 11, 2007 - Institute for t...
They call themselves Farsan Al Rafidayn, the Knights of the Two Rivers. And in Ameriya, a formerly wealthy district of western Baghdad, they have turned on al Qaeda,
Baghdad Neighborhoods: Mansour
Sep 10, 2007 - Institute for t...
Baghdad's Mansour district shows the competition between enemy groups for territory in Baghdad, the effect of the troop surge, and problems with Iraqi governance.
The Tide is Turning in Iraq (The Wall Street Journal)
Operations and events on the ground are already showing successes well beyond Baghdad in Anbar, Diyala and Salah ad-Din provinces--formerly al-Qaeda strongholds and hotbeds of the Sunni insurgency.
Operations of the 6th Iraqi Army Division
Sep 5, 2007 - Institute for t...
This is the first in a series of reports profiling the units of the 6th Iraqi Army Division. The units discussed here are located west and south of Baghdad.
Potemkin Story: Understanding the Dora Market (National Review Online)
The Dora market is an amazing success story and a small part of the critically important success that U.S. forces have achieved in the heart of a neighborhood that had been one of AQI's strongholds.
Operation Phantom Strike Factsheet
Aug 30, 2007 - Anonymous
Phantom Strike, a series of targeted joint operations against al Qaeda, Sunni, and Shi'a insurgent elements
in Baghdad and the surrounding areas, was launched on August 13, 2007.
Iran's Proxy War Against the United States and Iraq
This Iraq Report describes lethal support provided by the Iranian government to Shi'a extremist organizations in Iraq.