【タイ】 元フランス代表、ジダン氏がタイ北部でチャリティーマッチ [02/20]

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イラク”Surge"で象徴されている作戦が、成功を収めてる模様(アメリカ民主党が猛反対してる作戦)。

Iraq The Model(http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/)を読むと、この2〜3週間バグダットでの治安が
回復していると報道している。イラク警察、軍の治安部隊の最新の作戦がうまくいってるようだ。現地
バグダットのブログだから視野は限られているかも知れないが、バグダットに住んでいる人たちにも
分かる成果が出ているようだ。

メディアも静か。悪い事があると騒ぐメディアが、この2〜3週間はイギリスやデンマークの引き上げ
ニュースの報道だけ。Iraq The Modelなどの現地ブログからの情報に注目。

最近の見出し
Operation Baghdad: Week II
Bombs strike again but hope remains.
Attacks in Baghdad down by 80%
Operation Baghdad Update.
Terrorists resume their attacks on Baghdad's markets.
A Sunday Night in Baghdad.
Operation Baghdad, Day 2.
Operation Baghdad Has Started! 

In the past week, though, the men have been unnerved by absence of the sounds of war.
"It's been quiet ? really, really, quiet," said Sgt. Sergej Michaud, 24.

Michaud has cropped his dark hair nearly to the scalp, and he has a tattoo of a helmeted skull
on his left forearm with TANKER printed below. Like many other soldiers at the COP he relishes
the chance to drive towards gunfire and separate the combatants in Iraq's sectarian war.

That was routine for his platoon until a few days ago, when the violence suddenly dropped almost to nothing.
One soldier said he used to doze off at night by imagining the gunfire was the sound of rain on a tin roof.
Now the nights are virtually silent. That's unusual for any Baghdad neighborhood, and eerie for a notoriously
violent place like Ghazaliyah. Gunfights with insurgents and militiamen worry Sgt.

Michaud less than figuring out where those enemies have gone. "I have no idea," he said.
"It's kind of scary. It's kind of scary."
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1592305,00.html?xid=site-cnn-partner

他、参考
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1592305,00.html?xid=site-cnn-partner