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Fast Facts

* Violence has significantly dropped in Baghdad. 50-60% since December. The Iraqi Government has finally provided enough troops to secure most of Baghdad. Life is springing back in many places once abandoned desite the rogue suicide bomber. The Joint Security Stations across the city manned by Iraqi secutiry forces and Coaltion troops are working.

* While insurgents have fled to other cities in Iraq, Iraqi and coalition forces are destroying them in large numbers due to cooperation of the Iraqi people and due to their visibility. Over 200 Al Qaeda backed insurgents that had fled Baghdad were killed in a single afternoon in Hillah.

* Recruitment into the Iraqi police force has shown a sharp increase from Sunnis ready to join the new Iraqi nation. In Al Anbar, a Sunni resistance stronghold, recruitment has increased from 1000 new recruits to 4000 in recent months due to tribal and civic cooperation among the Sunnis there. Sunni leaders and people are sick of Al Qaeda influence in Al Anbar and are actively fighting back.

* Muqtada Sadr has lost his grip on power in the cabinet, the national assembly and with his street militias. More than 600 of his rogue leaders have been rounded up, killed or captured. Sadr is believed to have fled to Baghdad.

* A stable Iraq, at peace with its neighbors, not producing weapons of mass destruction, and fully committed to a law-based government is still very much possible. But it must have the commitment of political support, economic reconstruction resources, and military strength it requires to succeed.

Sources: After action report of GEN(Ret) Barry McCaffrey, Radio addresses by LTG General Ray Odierno, and field reports from soldiers in Baghdad.