And we saw. in December 2006. that was unfortunately enormously successful. But you can see from December 2006 to December 2007. presurge to postsurge. how these areas of yellow activity are shrunk. and virtually none of the red. the highly intensive sectarian violence. is occurring. So here we see. in a very remarkable contrast from presurge and postsurge. a reduction in ethnosectarian violence. a dramatic improvement. and perhaps best evidenced by the fact that many refugees are moving back from other places to their homes in these areas. Finally. perhaps most demonstrative of our success is these charts which indicate an overall drop in attack trends. This chart starts in December of 2006 and ends in December 2007. indicating a tremendous reductionby about twothirdsin the number of overall attacks in Iraq.
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