Top commanders said that better intelligence-gathering allows them to identify and hit extremist strongholds with bombs and missiles, and predicted that extensive airstrikes will continue this year as the US seeks to flush insurgents out of havens in and around Baghdad and to the north in Diyala province.The US dropped 1,447 bombs on Iraq last year, nearly four a day, compared with 229 bombs, or about four each week, in 2006. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.