Comical Allawi, the new Baghdad Bob

[KingChicken]

Comical Allawi announced today that violence is decreasing.

"The level of criminal operations has receded and is continuing to drop following the operation in Fallujah," Comical Allawi said on the state-owned Iraqiya television, in response to questions from viewers.


Facts:

Attacks have increased against U.S., Iraqi and other targets on the road leading from the center of Baghdad to the city's international airport, located on the western outskirts of the capital.

The British Embassy announced Monday that its staff would no longer be permitted to travel on the airport road, which the U.S. State Department has identified as one of the most dangerous routes in Iraq.

The Pentagon said Monday the U.S. military death toll in Iraq stands at 1,251, up by 21 since the last reported toll released Nov. 24. That means at least 130 U.S. troops have died in Iraq this month. The deadliest month for U.S. troops in Iraq was last April, when 135 died.

At least 50 people have been killed in Mosul in the past 10 days -- most of them believed to have been supporters of Iraq's interim government or members of its security forces.

In addition, two U.S. Marines were killed in a weekend bombing south of the capital, a U.S. official said Monday. U.S., British and Iraqi forces have been sweeping through the area to clear Sunni insurgents from a string of towns and cities between Baghdad and the Shiite shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala.

Insurgents stepped up attacks on Iraq's fledgling security forces, killing seven Iraqi police and guardsmen Monday in a suicide bombing hours after storming a police station north of the capital. Two U.S. soldiers died in a bombing in Baghdad.

A US military spokesman also reported that 13 marines and two civilians were wounded Monday when mortar shells struck a military base south of Baghdad


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