Ramadi War Zone Now Rare Bright Spot

For veterans of Ramadi, it seems like a different place and a different war.

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Troops in Ramadi Learn to Live With Danger

The hole in the ceiling is just a way to let out steam for the soldiers showering inside a damaged trailer in Ramadi, one of Iraq's most dangerous cities.

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Insurgents Keep U.S. at Bay in Ramadi

Whole neighborhoods are lawless, too dangerous for police. Some roads are so bomb-laden that U.S. troops won't use them. Guerrillas attack U.S. troops nearly every time they venture out — and hit their bases with gunfire, rockets or mortars when they don't.

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Everyone has hunches — about friends' motives, about the stock market, about when to fold a hand of poker and when to hold it.

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"As the Marine Corps shrinks its footprint in Iraq's western desert, Iraqi community leaders here are publicly voicing worries about what will happen once the Americans are gone. They fear a wave of corruption and the return of the insurgency that once held sway over the area.

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The al Anbar Awakening: A Marine's Eye View

Prior to 2007, August in Ramadi, Iraq was just another month of Al Qaeda bullying, gunfights, and all the things one would expect from a war. However, August 2007 was profoundly different for the citizens of Ramadi than August 2006.

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FALLUJAH – The United States military plans to formally hand over Anbar Province to the Iraqis this spring because the insurgency truly is finished in that part of the country.

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RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) - Stallholders and shoppers in Ramadi's Ma'Laab market all agree that business is getting better. What they can't agree on is whether the US troops who walk past them should stay or go.

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IF THE U.S. leaves Iraq, the violent sectarianism between the Sunni and Shia will worsen. This is what Republicans and Democrats alike will have us believe. This key piece of rhetoric is used to justify the continuance of the occupation of Iraq.

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The Ramadi women received their first paychecks a few weeks ago — about $500 for a month's work as police officers. They paid rent, bought food, wiped out debts.

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TIME Magazine's "columnist" Joe Klein asks if there's progress in Iraq, then why can't troops start coming home? It sounds like a good question, but it shows one thing, and suggests another.

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I was greeted by friendly Iraqis in the streets of Baghdad every day, but the atmosphere in Ramadi was different. I am not exaggerating in the least when I describe their attitude toward Americans as euphoric. Grown Iraqi men hugged American Soldiers and Marines.

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Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha was a key Sunni Arab ally of the US and Iraqi governments in Iraq's western Anbar province. The 37-year-old leader of the Al Bu Risha tribe was killed in a bomb attack near his home in the provincial capital, Ramadi, on Thursday.

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The honour is well-deserved. Captain Patriquin played a little-known but crucial role in one of the few American success stories of the Iraq war.

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In a dispatch posted at 3:14pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation officials held an enlarged meeting with journalists and correspondents working in the city of ar-Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar Province located 110km west of Baghdad, o …

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As you know this war torn city was once the worst city in Iraq. Today, the citizens of this city are taking a stand against those extremists and foreign fighters who are focused only on destroying any chance at a secure and stable future.

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well ramadi was once dubbed by everyone as the worst city in the world. but we have done such a great job here that all the families in the area have worked with us on driving out the insurgency and that we work directly with the IA and the IP's.

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That remarkable success is worth pondering at a time when most Americans are willing to write off Iraq as a lost cause. There is no doubt that U.S. forces face an agonizingly difficult task in Iraq.

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To echo the sentiments of my fellow Marine in 1/6, the reality of what is happening on the ground in places like Ramadi is not being reported to the American public. The pundits and politicians on both sides do not fully grasp the conditions on the ground here.

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This Email To Me, Harry, And America, Direct From A Grunt On The Front Lines Of Ramadi, Is Just Hours Old

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"RAMADI, IRAQ — The commander of U.S. troops in Iraq wanted some sweets, and nothing was going to stop him.

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FALLUJAH, Dec 9 (IPS) - People living in areas where resistance to U.S.-led occupation is mounting are facing increased levels of collective punishment from the occupation forces, residents say.

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RAMADI, Nov 17 (IPS) - U.S. military tank fire killed scores of civilians in Ramadi, capital of Al-Anbar province, late Monday night, according to witnesses and doctors. Anger and frustration were evident at the hospitals and during the funerals in the following days.

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In a bulletin posted at 6:35pm Makkah time Wednesday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation troops withdrew from one of their bases west of ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad after weeks of Resistance rocket barrages.

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Local residents, who declined to be named for fear of reprisals, said US tanks had fired into the area and that those who died were not militants. They criticised the US forces and Shi'ite-led Iraqi government.

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In a dispatch posted at 11:35am Makkah time Saturday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces had deployed in extremely large numbers in the city of ar-Ramadi, about 110 km west of Baghdad.

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Hundreds of armed men marched through the capital of Anbar province as mosque loudspeakers broadcast a statement by the Mujahidin Shura Council. Cars also formed convoys in a show of strength in an area revisited by US forces on a regular basis.

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The man interviewed this week, Majed, shows his scars and discusses his recent detention and abuse at the hands of Iraqi security forces in Ramadi.

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