BAGHDAD — Only seven months ago the Sugasimche (Fish Market) area in the Raabi neighborhood of the Adhamiyah district was filled with a violent, criminal element that struck fear into residents who didn’t feel safe to walk the streets.
But a change for the better occurred thanks to the persistent efforts of paratroopers from Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, who have worked with local security forces to restore the market area, making it once again a center of commerce for residents throughout Adhamiyah.
“When we first got to the neighborhood months ago it was a dangerous place to go,” said Clemens, Ore., native, Sgt. 1st Class Christopher ******. “We focused our efforts in the neighborhood and took out the insurgents living in the area. After that, we enticed people to come. We built and refurbished schools there and provided security through the Iraqi Security Volunteer program. Now safety is a reality in this neighborhood. If you come here during the day or night, you see a lot of people shopping.”
The paratroopers still conduct daily patrols with Iraqi Soldiers and Police to build relationships with residents. Since 319th Soldiers have already built a strong bond with citizens in Raabi, the more residents see Iraqi Security Forces walking the neighborhoods with paratroopers, the more trust they will have toward the Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police.
****** said that what his team and their Iraqi counterparts are doing is setting an effective security plan in place so the local people can feel safe. He believes that security is the main reason more stores are open and more people in the neighborhoods are showing up to shop. They made the actual market more inviting to improve commerce.
“If we don’t keep businesses opened up, the economy is going to collapse, there’s going to be no money circulating,” said ******. “We just got to keep working with our counterparts the Iraqi Army and Police and get them to the level they need to be, so we can transition this place to them and the local nationals still feel safe and willing to shop.”
you took that from the Official Website of the American forces in Iraq. Might as well make threads about every single piece of news coming out of that website. Will make us all incredibly happy and satisfied with the way things are progressing in Iraq.
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LL, WHO GIVES A FLYING !?
THe Iraqi government is currupt piece of !! As soon as the Americans withdraw, that thing is going to crumble into the blunders of the bush administration. Maliki is backed by Maqtuda Al-Sadr, a shiite cleric commanding the Mehdi Army, and backed by Iran! The ing government is a shiite theocracy in the closet. The Interior Ministry has been implicated as being part of the sectarian civil war on a MASSIVE scale. We could let maybe a few rogue elements be in the sectarian killing. But that's not the case. Interior ministry forces have been implicated in secret torture prisons sometimes housing HUNDREDS of prisoners. These prisons run by the police!!!!!!!! Bodies were floating down the rivers, found in the streets, with hands tied, bullet holes in the head, and many many showing signs of horrific torture, like drill holes in parts of the body, eyes gouged, heads severed, castrations, branding, scalding, and more horrors. All by members of the Iraqi government in Baghdad.
