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Associated Presshttp://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/11/ap_northerniraq_071119/%2e">General: N. Iraq has become more violentBy Pauline Jelinek - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Nov 19, 2007 11:47:06 EST
Despite a decline in violence in Iraq, northern Iraq
has become more violent than other regions as al-
Qaida and other militants move there to avoid
coalition operations elsewhere, the region’s top U.S.
commander said Monday.
Army Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling said al-Qaida cells
still operate in all the key cities in the north.
“What you’re seeing is the enemy shifting,” he told
Pentagon reporters in a video conference from
outside Tikrit in northern Iraq.
Hertling said militants have been pushed east to his
area from Anbar by the so-called Awakening
movement, in which local tribes have allied with the
coalition against al-Qaida. Others have been pushed
north to his area from the Baghdad region, where
this year’s U.S. troop surge has made more
operations possible.
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