Enemy incidents decrease for 10th straight month

[unhappycamper]

Enemy incidents decrease for 10th straight month
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Tuesday, December 11, 2007

ARLINGTON, Va. — Attacks against coalition troops in Anbar continue to drop, the U.S. general who oversees the westernmost province in Iraq said Monday.

“November marked the 10th straight month of decreasing enemy incidents” in Anbar, Marine Corps Maj. Gen. W.E. Gaskin, commanding general of Multi-National Force – West, told Pentagon reporters via satellite from Iraq.

Enemy incidents include anything from troops taking small-arms fire to roadside bombs that are discovered before they explode, Gaskin said.

In the first week of December 2006, coalition forces deployed to Anbar counted 460 enemy incidents, Gaskin said.

One year later, in the first week of December 2007, there were just 40, Gaskin said.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=50885

[Nederland]

1. This is good news

It will be interesting to see if this condition continues after the surge winds back down in March. I fear the insurgents are simply laying low until American troop level fall to pre-surge levels.