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More Good News from Iraq
Amy Proctor has 2 great reports up on Iraq: “Iraqis are Returning Home in Droves”:
BAGHDAD — With security improving, local economies flourishing and community reconstruction underway, Iraqis who once fled their South Baghdad homes in fear are now returning to the villages they deserted.
This is a good sign, said Maj. Mark Bailey, the officer in charge of the Multi-National Division – Center governance cell.
“Once people are convinced that security is good in their area, they come back,” said Bailey, who is with 401st Civil Affairs Battalion, attached to 3rd Infantry Division. “If they own a business, they re-open their business, which helps the economy.”
Out of the approximate 18,700 Iraqis who left their homes, it is estimated that 10,450 have returned, according to MND-C records . . . .
and “Huge Disneyland-style Park Comes to Baghdad”
A multi-million dollar entertainment park is in the planning and development stages in Baghdad, Iraq. Llewellyn Werner, chairman of a Los Angeles based holding company for private equity firms, is investing hundreds of millions of dollars and has taken out a 50 year lease from the mayor of Baghdad on 50 acres that surrounds the Baghdad zoo. The plan is to build a massive amusement park encompassing the zoo that provides Iraqis recreation as well as jobs.
Now that’s what I call “reconstruction”!
The Hound
April 24th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Interesting. It was noteworthy yesterday that Al Qaida’s No. 2 was whining on Tuesday about the Muslim lack of commitment to Jihad. The gig is up.
The Hound