Sorry, nothing to blog
I try pretty hard to put at least an interesting article link up several times a day, but I just haven't been able to find anything that I didn't think was a waste of your time.
The only interesting thing of note from this afternoon's web wanderings is that the majority of US deaths in Iraq this month still seem to be coming mainly from the Sunni majority Anbar province. If you accept that "west of Baghdad" counts as Anbar, the provinces meet there, 36 fatalities have taken place in Anbar, 9 in the entire rest of the country, and 5 were listed as taking place in a military hospital. (Using Iraq Coalition Casualty Count.)
So, after 3 years of the operations to "clear and hold" Ramadi, Fallujah, Tal Afar, and all the other smaller towns from Baghdad west to the Syrian border, Anbar is still producing the vast majority of US fatalities.
(What got me thinking about this is that every story I read over the last week about marines dying, several a day, seemed to have happened in Anbar.)
The only interesting thing of note from this afternoon's web wanderings is that the majority of US deaths in Iraq this month still seem to be coming mainly from the Sunni majority Anbar province. If you accept that "west of Baghdad" counts as Anbar, the provinces meet there, 36 fatalities have taken place in Anbar, 9 in the entire rest of the country, and 5 were listed as taking place in a military hospital. (Using Iraq Coalition Casualty Count.)
So, after 3 years of the operations to "clear and hold" Ramadi, Fallujah, Tal Afar, and all the other smaller towns from Baghdad west to the Syrian border, Anbar is still producing the vast majority of US fatalities.
(What got me thinking about this is that every story I read over the last week about marines dying, several a day, seemed to have happened in Anbar.)
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10:15 PM
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