Attacks in Iraq Down Considerably

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... we as part of our operations with the Iraqi security forces work to drive a wedge between the Iraqi population and specifically the terrorists and foreign fighters. We've seen recently, specifically in Ramadi, indications that the locals in Ramadi are taking actions themselves against the terrorists and foreign fighters, and they're doing that in a variety of means.

"Victory is not the destruction in a given area of the insurgent's forces and his political organization....A victory is that plus the permanent isolation of the insurgent from the population, isolation not enforced upon the population but maintained by and with the population."
-Counterinsurgency Warfare:Theory and Practice,David Galula