Meanwhile Back in Iraq
Thousands of Iraqi immigrants have seen their life savings depleted by the high cost of living in Jordan and have now resorted to begging.
The U.S. embassy in Iraq repeated it’s support for a unified Iraq, voicing their objection to a Senate resolution to partition the country into three states.
Civilian deaths from violence across Iraq fell by 50 percent in September from the previous month to the lowest level recorded this year, government data showed on Monday. According to Iraq Coalition Casualties, there were 746 civilian deaths and 96 Iraq Security Forces deaths in September. In August there there were 1,598 civilian deaths and 76 Iraq Security Forces deaths. In September of 06 there were 3,389 civilian deaths and 180 Iraq Security Forces deaths. I wonder if they’ve changed the definitions again. Maybe now if you’re shot on any day ending with a Y, it’s not a sectarian death. It would be wonderful if this down turn in deaths continues, but it’s hard to believe anything they report.
Residents in Basra have reported that life is much quieter and safer since the British troops were withdrawn. Soooooo……. wouldn’t other areas be safer for the Iraqis if American targets were removed?????
Three more people have died of cholera in Iraq bringing the total to 14. There have been 2,758 confirmed cases.
Things aren’t looking good in Iraq’s northern oil hub, where hospitals are reporting up to 100 new cases of cholera a day as the bacterial disease continues to spread across the country, a top medical official said Monday.
At a September 27th breakfast meeting with a group of democrats, Secretary of Defense Gates informed them that the war in Iraq, and lack of allies to contribute more troops is hurting the effort in Afghanistan.
The Washington Post reports on the steep price the U.S. pays for private security contractors.
Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is troubled by the Iraq war. He thinks it has become such a consuming focus of U.S. attention that it may be overstretching the military and distracting the nation from other threats. Gee, ya think????
Security developments in Iraq 10/1/07
