U.S. hands “triangle of death” to Iraqi troops

I haven’t seen this anywhere in the old school media, but I’ll be damned if we don’t post a success like this here. If success happens in Iraq, and no one reports it…did it happen? Dunno/don’t wanna find out so we’re reporting it here. Please, pass this on. Spread the word. The work of the United States Marines, and the soldiers of the U.S. Army has made a difference. Thousands of foreign fighters once called Falluja and the Sunni Triangle home. It was Al Queda’s main base in what they called, The Central Front in the Holy War against America.

Thank you to all those in uniform, and to all the Iraqis who made this possible!!!

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. forces declared an area once known as the “triangle of death” safe enough for Iraqi troops to take charge on Thursday, handing over responsibility for security in Babil province to Iraqi forces.

The province south of Baghdad is the 12th of Iraq’s 18 provinces in which primary responsibility for security has been given to Iraqi forces. With violence at four-year lows, only the capital Baghdad, four ethnically and religiously mixed northern provinces and Wasit province along the Iranian border still require day-to-day U.S. patrols of Iraqi streets.

Lieutenant-General Lloyd Austin, commander of U.S. combat forces in Iraq, called the event a “milestone for Iraq in maturing as a sovereign and democratic nation.”
“Just a year ago this province was experiencing well over 20 attacks per week. And today attacks are down well over 80 percent. This is truly remarkable,” he said.

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