I'm not very keen on quoting Reuters as I feel they promote terrorism (look at their Stringers), but I was drawn to this news item today. No doubt the "Surge" is working. America won't quit even though our Politicians surrendered a long time ago. "Get Some"
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Around 8,000 U.S. forces launched a fresh operation on Monday targeting Islamist al Qaeda militants in farmland south of Baghdad, the military said.
In pre-dawn raids, helicopter-borne troops swept into an area the U.S. military said was an al Qaeda safe haven around the Euphrates river valley, 35 km (22 miles) south of Baghdad.
The terrain, criss-crossed with an extensive canal system, has been the location of fierce fighting between U.S. forces and militants in the past and at least one air strike was called in during the early hours of the operation, a spokeswoman said.
Tens of thousands of U.S. and Iraqi forces are engaged in a series of security clampdowns in and around Baghdad to thwart sectarian violence pushing Iraq towards full civil war.
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