Struggle, eh? The article is published by McClatchy, which also mourned the slow employment for Baghdad's gravediggers when The Surge started to work.
CAMP TAJI, Iraq — In the first month that they were in Iraq, someone threatened, shot at or tried to blow up the soldiers of the Kentucky National Guard's B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery 12 times. Last month, there were only three such incidents.
But confirmation that the roads have become safer came a few weeks ago when a flier went up in the 2-138's office at this base 20 miles north of Baghdad. "Effective immediately," it read, "assume all civilian vehicles are friendly." |