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08 Sep 2007 03:10 pm
Surge 'N Purge?
My reader was onto something. From the NYT's extensive probe of Iraqi security now:
[I]n some cases the good news is a consequence of bad news: people in
neighborhoods have been “takhalasu” — an Iraqi word for purged, meaning
killed or driven away. More than 35,000 Iraqis have left their homes in
Baghdad since the American troop buildup began, humanitarian groups
reported.
When you have no one left in your neighborhood to kill, the numbers of sectarian murders tend to go down a little. We're seeing ethnic cleansing slowed but not ended.
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