Here is an excerpt from yesterday's briefing by MNF—Iraq spokesman, Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch in which he discusses foreign fighters, suicide attacks, border security, defeating IEDs, weapons caches discovered & Iraqis providing the coalition solid intel.  For the rest of the briefing, go here. I want to talk about four specific indicators on operations here in Iraq, and I don't want to talk about what happened yesterday. I want to talk over a period of time to give you a sense of the trend lines that we see. And these are four that I've talked to you about before, but allow me to give you an update. We believe that 90 percent of the suicide attacks in Iraq are conducted by foreign fighters —— al Qaeda, Zarqawi commissioning foreign fighters to conduct these suicide attacks. Last year this time, across Iraq, we were averaging about 75 suicide attacks a day. Now we're averaging about 24 a day. One of the reasons for that drawdown is not that Zarqawi and al...(Read Full Post)