If you come here on a regular basis, you know that we get very frustrated with the inept and irresponsible reporting going on in what is called the mainstream media, the antique media, the legacy media or the moonbats running major news outlets. Stories from those with "boots on the ground" are ignored in favor of stories from those who never leave the safety of their Washington or New York City offices or if they do happen to find themselves, heaven forbid, in Iraq, they are too much of a woos to leave the green zone or the comfort of the American conclave at the fanciest hotel bar. We constantly try to bring you the "other side," or the side we believe to be far closer to the turth. Stories like the following:
Iraqis Fed Up With Insurgency, General Says
By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON,
March 9, 2006 – The people of Iraq are rising up against an insurgency bent on derailing democracy in the country, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman said today. "The people of Iraq are uniting against the insurgency," Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch said during a news conference from Baghdad. "Out in al Anbar, the terrorists and foreign fighters have become the enemy to the people."
People in that province have collectively turned against Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his network, Lynch said. Seven of Zarqawi's leaders have been killed in Anbar since September, and insurgent access to Ramadi has been physically blocked, he added.
Another way Iraqi citizens, as a whole, are uniting against the insurgency is by giving coalition members and Iraqi security forces "actionable tips." Lynch described actionable tips as those that provide information that coalition and Iraqi forces can do something with. Of all calls to the national tip line, 98 percent are actionable, he said.
"Based on these kinds of tips, since November, we have been able to kill or capture 41 bomb makers," Lynch said. These kinds of tips also have led to the discovery of more than 1,500 weapons caches across Iraq.
Iraqis are fed up with Zarqawi and his network's attempts to discredit the Iraqi government and disrupt the political process, Lynch said. "He's trying to tear Iraq apart at the seams to keep it from unifying as a nation," he said. "He's trying to stop the democratic process, but he can't."
Insurgents' attempts come at great cost to Iraqi civilians. Of 290 casualties in Iraq since Feb. 25, 239 were Iraqi civilians, Lynch said. Those casualties were the result of 40 car bombs that detonated while Iraqis were in line at gas stations or on their way to the market or school, Lynch said.
There were 555 attacks against coalition members, Iraqi security forces and civilians last week, he said. Yesterday alone, there were 80, he said. [CONT'D. HERE]
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