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Backing up Pejman's post from this morning, I spent the first three weeks of August, 2007 embedded in this very area, with Baker Company 1-15 IN of the 3rd Infantry Division. Full reports can be seen here. A few highlights include the following:

Iraq's "Concerned Local Citizens" Program Grows into a Bona-Fide Phenomenon

Southeast of Baghdad, the Surge is Working

Another Iraqi ‘Awakening’?: In yet another region of Iraq, one tribe decides that it wants something better than what the insurgency has to offer

The Surge in Action: Baker Company 1-15 rallies villagers to the Coalition and against the insurgency.