The Pentagon held another in its series of blogger roundtables yesterday morning. Major General Kevin J. Bergner, deputy chief of Staff for Strategic Effects, MNF-I, was the featured guest. Bergner spoke at length about the concerned local citizens (CLCs) that have had made such a tremendous contribution to security in Anbar, and which are now being replicated in the still restive province of Diyala. Bergner started by saying that, “Most importantly, these groups have one thing in common, they have found the courage to take a stand and start fighting against the extremists…they’re becoming a solution to a very serious security problem.” He also noted a recent operation that resulted in the elimination of a seven-man al Qaeda cell and the capture of
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