Ex-Qaida sector shows safety gains

More bad news for the Leftists and other terror supporters. Great news for the Iraqis and their families. Those poor "useful idiots" will all have to fight hard to ignore more good news from Iraq.

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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.03.2008

MADAIN, Iraq — Just a few months ago, two to three people a day were dying in the Madain district, once a stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq.
Ammer Abdulrazaq Hamod never left the area, in the southeastern part of Baghdad province, but he was concerned about safety — especially for his three children. But now Madain residents are coming out of their homes. Children ride their bikes, and residents mingle downtown.
'My children, they live a normal life,' Hamod said. 'They are in the street, playing soccer games, going here and there.'
Residents credit the recent security gains to when U.S.-backed Iraqi forces entered the district in December and to the formation of an 'awakening council,' a U.S.-allied Sunni armed group that's charged with fighting al-Qaida in Iraq. Now all the area needs is better services, residents say: cleaner water, regular electricity, better-equipped hospitals and schools. And the recent signs of safety are meant to persuade the central government to provide just that.
'After only one month, terrorist attacks stopped,' said Hamod, a member of the council, which is mixed with Sunni and Shiite Muslims, rare among the awakening councils.
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