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Citizen volunteers vastly improve security in Iraq's Diyala Province

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:23 PM EDT

WASHINGTON ? Violence in Iraq?s Diyala River Valley has been slashed in half thanks to citizen volunteers, a coalition commander said today.?Currently in Diyala, we have 4,000 local citizens who have decided to reject al Qaeda and other extremist organizations as well as militia, and they?re now helping in the protection of their own neighborhoods,? Army Col. David Sutherland told online journalists and ?bloggers? during a conference call from Forward Operating Base Warhorse near Baqouba, Iraq.

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Robert Blevins - AB of Seattle

Well, in the end it is the Iraqi people who have to decide for themselves if they want to descend into anarchy and bloody civil war - or join the world community. We can't help them much longer.

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Reply#1 - Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:42 PM EDT