UN: Baghdad security operation has failed

[rodeodance]

well, I am sure that the WH is having a COW over this!!


http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=214260120&p=zy4z6x8y6&n=214260915&x=#

25/04/2007 - 9:06:42 AM

UN: Baghdad security operation has failed

Sectarian violence continued to claim the lives of a large number of Iraqi civilians in Sunni Arab and Shiite neighbourhoods of Iraq’s capital, despite the coalition’s new Baghdad security plan, the UN said today.

In its first human rights report since the security plan was launched on February 14 – and began increasing US and Iraqi troops levels in the capital - the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said civilian casualties in the daily violence between January and March remained high, concentrated in and around Baghdad.

American troops are facing increasing danger as they step up their presence in outposts and police stations in Baghdad and areas surrounding the city, as part of the security crackdown to which US President George Bush has committed an extra 30,000 troops.

Thousands of Iraqi soldiers are also being deployed in the streets of the capital in an attempt to pacify it.

“While government officials claimed an initial drop in the number of killings in the latter half of February following the launch of the Baghdad security plan, the number of reported casualties rose again in March,” the study said.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Oh no! I've been lied to again! By my glorious, godly president!

[gratuitous]

2. Time for another round of GOP attack ads

More Republican bitching about how reality is biased against their political goals.