Transcript: Strategies Decrease Iraq Violence, U.S. Military Says

MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
11-22-2007
Strategies Decrease Iraq Violence, U.S. Military Says

Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 21:00-22:00 PM


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The U.S. military believes that overall violence in Iraq is on a downward trend. Earlier this week, the military released numbers that show a drop in weekly attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces and Iraqi civilians. Those attacks are now at their lowest level since February 2006, when a sacred Shiite shrine was attacked by Sunni extremists.

NPR Defense correspondent Guy Raz is with us. And Guy, first, tell us about these numbers that that military is citing.

GUY RAZ: Well, the military is basically saying there ...

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