The situation is Iraq stabilizes when the people begin to take personal responsibility to safeguard their new found freedoms. I think that message is coming through “loud and clear.”:http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1295734.htm
bq. *_The Iraqi police have investigated a case in the village of al-Mudhariya, which is just south of Baghdad. The villagers there say that before the election insurgents came and warned them that if they voted in last weekend’s election, they would pay._*
bq. *_Now the people of this mixed village of Sunni and Shia Muslims, they ignored the threat and they did turn out to vote._*
bq. *_We understand that last night the insurgents came back to punish the people of al-Mudhariya, but instead of metering out that punishment the villagers fought back and they killed five of the insurgents and wounded eight. They then burnt the insurgents’ car. So the people of that village have certainly had enough of the insurgents._*
And so, it begins.
Via “Tim Blair”:http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/magnificent/, who sees this as more of a _Magnificent 7_ rather than a _Blazing Saddles_ kind of moment. Regardless, as Tim says – “Villagers rule”.
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