In Tatters Beneath a Surge of Claims by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail

In Tatters Beneath a Surge of Claims

by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail / February 23rd, 2008

BAGHDAD, Feb 22 (IPS) — What the U.S. has been calling the success of a “surge”, many Iraqis see as evidence of catastrophe. Where U.S. forces point to peace and calm, local Iraqis find an eerie silence

And when U.S. forces speak of a reduction in violence, many Iraqis simply do not know what they are talking about.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/in-tatters-beneath-a-surge-of-claims/