Iraq: Large drop in air raids
04/11/2007 18:06  - (SA)  

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Baghdad - A "significant" fall in US air raids in Iraq has been recorded over the past few weeks, a top US air force officer told reporters on Sunday.

"Yesterday (on Saturday), for the first time in a long time, we dropped no ammunitions," said Major General David Edgington, a co-ordination director for the US-led multinational forces.

"We were called several times, but we dropped no ammunitions. This is an indication of an improved security situation."

Edgington also reported a drop in air raids in the past few weeks.

"For the last three to four weeks, we saw a significant decrease of our interventions," he said.

"We are having less calls for kinetic operations. We are still there, but we have less calls."

US and Iraqi officials say violence across the war-ravaged country has been falling in the past few months since the full deployment of the extra 28 500 troops in a "surge" ordered by President George W Bush in February.

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