By Ernesto Londono, Washington Post
March 12, 2007
The village of Diyala, a town northeast of Baghdad, was ravaged Sunday by insurgents who demanded the citizens join the “Islamic State of Iraq.” Afterwards, the gunmen poured gasoline and other accelerants and lit as many as 31 homes ablaze, causing Iraqis to flee to village. According to the US, Diyala is a particularly volatile area in Iraq. They suppose that a recent trend in higher violence could be a result of the new security measures that have tightened control of Baghdad – causing the combatants to make their way towards outlying places such as Diyala. General David Petraeus pledged to locate more US troops to the region that is heavily Sunni. The “Islamic State of Iraq” is a Sunni insurgent group, and they claimed to have murdered 20 suspected members of the Iraqi army. As noted by Petraeus, this new trend in violence on the outskirts of Baghdad are likely directly linked to the new measures currently being carried out within the capital. While this is definitely a good sign of the improvements in Iraq, the point that is explicitly clear is that the insurgents are regrouping and finding new ways to attack.
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I think they are making some head way in the capital but these groups of militant men are dong whatever they can to show that they still can act out on American and Iraqi forces. They do not have much to fight for anymore they are fleeing their city and and now moving and infecting other areas with violence I think we still have a long way till this is all over.
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