Iraq

This was exaggerated by one-off relief to Iraq and Nigeria, which boosted the 2005 total and began to drop out of the calculation in 2006.

He has said he wants to transfer some of the concepts used in Iraq to the increasingly difficult fight in Afghanistan.

We have no ambition in Iraq, except to remove a threat and restore control of that country to its own people.

It was no secret the U. S. was considering compulsory Iraq service for its diplomatic corps, but the e-mails sparked outrage nevertheless.

This would be a huge step, threatening an open-ended entanglement, though Libya's population is only a fraction of Iraq's or Afghanistan's.

Thousands of Marines there have been sent to Iraq, and thousands more are getting ready to be deployed to Afghanistan.

"We do not operate detention facilities on board Navy ships. DoD detention facilities are in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo, " he said.

In 2002 Mr Bush lumped Iraq, North Korea and Iran together in an "axis of evil" and said he would stop them acquiring nuclear weapons.

When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Tom Lynch and his fellow contractors decided to get out of Iraq while they still could.

And, a group of celebrities, accompanied by the head of the Pentagon, arrived in Baghdad to help boost morale among U. S. troops in Iraq.

State Department spokesman (Tom Casey) said the "Status of Forces Agreement" would be a legal outline for the U. S. presence in Iraq.

trying to convince an America hit by an economic downturn and fighting an unpopular war in Iraq. . .

Mr. Obama said it might be possible, noting the outreach program in Iraq helped turn around the course of the war.

The parade was one of several around the country marking the 30th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war.

Instead of finishing out the year, he would be going to Iraq to help fight the war that had just begun.

Free speech was one of the semi-bright lights in Iraq, though it has come under more threat as time passes.

If Iraq sticks to the road map laid out for it by the United Nations, _sanctions_ could be lifted without more ado.

They look anxiously at what has happened in Iraq, where the overthrow of a tyrant does not seem to have helped women.

He had been a longtime advocate of more troops in Iraq, and he supported the new strategy wholeheartedly.

The American Defense Secretary Robert Gates has told American troops in Iraq that their mission there is now, as he put it, in its endgame.

The last thing the Americans want to see, as they pull out of Iraq, is a war between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds.

Against many expectations, Basra is steadily being transformed into a Mini-Me of the Kurdish city in northern Iraq, Sulaymaniya.

None of this would matter quite so much if the country were secure, but Iraq is still under siege.

Mr. Tenet defended the work of his intelligence analysts, and said the search would continue for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

As a presidential candidate, several times Mr. Obama said something like this comment he made in July about the war in Iraq.

President Bush is on his way home after a five-day European tour aimed at mending trans-Atlantic ties, frayed by the war in Iraq.

The president said he had fulfilled a pledge he made as a presidential candidate to bring the Iraq war to a responsible end.

There was also a study done, that not surprisingly, 92 percent of the children in Iraq had learning impediments, due to a climate of fear.

When the infidel goes, the resisters will have to put forward a more concrete vision of the sort of Iraq they want.

He said he intends to shift some combat brigades from Iraq to Afghanistan if he is elected in November.

Or to describe it more accurately I feel like the soldiers have came out of the movie and are playing their roles in reality in Iraq! ! !

US president Bush has a major worry hanging over his head. It is not easy to end the war against Iraq immediately.

Now George Bush's Democratic critics want him to talk to both Iran and Syria to help find a way out of Iraq.

Now that the U. S. involvement in Iraq has wound down, Crane says, oil seems to be less of an American security concern.

Was one of the earliest proponents of sending additional American troops to Iraq.

It might be possible to make a convincing case for an air strike on Iran if you could somehow erase the memory of the disaster of Iraq.

In his State of the Union, he said, the U. S. will not abruptly withdraw troops from Iraq.

The Bush administration has been trying to make Americans believe that there were legitimate reasons for going to war in Iraq.

Invading Grenada under Reagan was one thing; invading Iraq under Mr Bush turned out to be quite another.

Mr. Obama has also said he plans to leave behind enough troops in Iraq to hunt terrorists and train the country's security forces.

He said he is alarmed by the increasingly partisan tone to the debate in the United States over continued military operations in Iraq.

"As Iraq enters this new phase in its history, the United States vows its continued support, " she said.

The study said the ratings, while low, are still better than they were at the start of the war with Iraq.

You [America] cannot preserve your power over Iraq with a few tanks, artillery and weapons. Today, you are prisoners of your own quagmire.

Mr. Blair said he viewed it as a sign of optimism that Saddam was tried by an Iraq court for crimes committed against his own people .

But the national party is not with him on Iraq.

Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, was one of the most enthusiastic advocates for an attack on Iraq and is also a leading hawk on Iran.

US oil groups were all but shut out of Iraq as the country completed the biggest oil field auction in history at the weekend.

Either would have to decide whether merely to obstruct the president's Iraq policy, or to work with him to improve it.

O'Hanlon said the U. S. military will bring some of the capabilities developed in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Just as they tried to stoke a Shiite-Sunni civil war in Iraq, and failed, they are now trying to stoke a Hindu-Muslim civil war in India.

Everybody cans want and then take place in the recent years. ( Iraq war) this war everybody should be very familiar with?

And in his overview of the Iraq war, he shows how Al Qaeda and its allies were able to take advantage of modern communications.

Derga still supports the war in Iraq and considers it the "morally correct thing to do. " He would, however, like to see the country united.

Iraq has long suffered from the infiltration of jihadists from Syria, who might be emboldened if the Assad regime were to fall.

In the run-up to the Iraq war it was left to the left to make the argument that this was a "war for oil" .

Did a clairvoyant help U. S. commandos ferret Saddam Hussein out of his hiding place in Iraq three years ago?

If Mr McCain were to become president, he would also be well advised to restrain his instincts and redefine America's mission in Iraq.

Bush said he also looks forward to conferring with his military advisers before laying out his plan for moving forward in Iraq.

While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaida in Iraq as well as Sunni militants.

Readers can only be grateful to him for unearthing the history of a family, a people and a very different image of Iraq.

She was a teacher in her native Iraq, but fled with her family in 2006, first to Syria and then to New York.

During the election campaign he said he would give the military a new mission in Iraq.

He made no reference to the fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - a major justification for launching the war.

Now he and others must define the future for a less-than-free Iraq, and how much longer US forces must stay.

Three months later, Seelaus, who'd never been away from his family more than a few days, arrived in central Iraq, 42 miles north of Baghdad.

He himself said he would be "sacrifice" and a "true martyr" for Iraq.

He gave no hint that he was in Iraq at Contingency Operating Base Adder, only a few hours' drive south of Baghdad.

This was one reason so much of Europe opposed the U. S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Mr Kouchner was one of the few Frenchmen to see merit in the Iraq intervention, though he criticised its aftermath.

In Iraq, we are helping the long suffering people of that country to build a decent and democratic society at the center of the Middle East.

He said that the Christian populations in Iraq and Egypt were probably better off under previous regimes that have been overthrown.

She said the military itself, examining its experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, has come to recognize the limits of the use of force.

Let me begin today's briefing with a short account of the work being performed by UNMOVIC in Iraq.

Most of the migrants trying to reach Australia this year are escaping fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

But you know, it must be nice here in Iraq, because I understand some of you keep coming back again, and again, and again.

AS IF Iraq did not have enough problems of its own.

Iraq looks to be on a very similar path to that of Russia.

Its sprawling base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina has emptied out, with all four of its brigades now fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney say they will not budge from sending more US troops to Iraq no matter how much Congress opposes it.

They withdrew under a security agreement that calls for American combat forces to leave Iraq by the end of two thousand eleven.

There was a sigh of relief at the Pentagon Wednesday as the U. S. Army's final combat brigade crossed from Iraq into Kuwait.

Post-Iraq, many policymakers seem to unable to distinguish prudent precaution from madcap plans to start unnecessary wars.

It no longer matters whether the war in Iraq "should've never been waged. "

Such an Iraq would not be a pro-American state but it would at least be a state.

As public doubts about the war grow, the images of sadism symbolized all that is going wrong with the U. S. venture in Iraq.

Republicans can only hope the move pushes Iraq off the front page as they turn their attention to next year's crucial elections .

Hillary Clinton, just back from Iraq, said on January 17th that she supported legislation to put a cap on the number of troops there.

How much logic will be contorted in an effort to argue that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the trigger? I'm thinking a lot.

It may be that America would have exercised the same caution in Libya even if it had not been for Iraq.

They withdrew under a security agreement that calls for American combat forces to leave Iraq by the end of two thousand eleven.

There was a sigh of relief at the Pentagon Wednesday as the U. S. Army's final combat brigade crossed from Iraq into Kuwait.

Post-Iraq, many policymakers seem to unable to distinguish prudent precaution from madcap plans to start unnecessary wars.

It no longer matters whether the war in Iraq "should've never been waged. "

Such an Iraq would not be a pro-American state but it would at least be a state.

As public doubts about the war grow, the images of sadism symbolized all that is going wrong with the U. S. venture in Iraq.

Thousands of mer Marines there have been send sent to Iraq, and thousands more are getting ready to be deploy deployed to Afghanistan.

Republicans can only hope the move pushes Iraq off the front page as they turn their attention to next year's crucial elections .

Hillary Clinton, just back from Iraq, said on January 17th that she supported legislation to put a cap on the number of troops there.

How much logic will be contorted in an effort to argue that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the trigger? I'm thinking a lot.

Thousands of mer Marines there have been send sent to Iraq, and thousands more are getting ready to be deploy deployed to Afghanistan.

Republicans can only hope the move pushes Iraq off the front page as they turn their attention to next year's crucial elections .

Hillary Clinton, just back from Iraq, said on January 17th that she supported legislation to put a cap on the number of troops there.

How much logic will be contorted in an effort to argue that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the trigger? I'm thinking a lot.

It may be that America would have exercised the same caution in Libya even if it had not been for Iraq.

After being detained, Masri confessed to being the al Qaeda in Iraq leader, he said, adding that his identity still had to be confirmed.

President Bush says opposition demands to pull U. S. troops out of Iraq by October would embolden the enemy.

Iraq had a much richer country, you look at the streets of Baghdad now, who do not scared to go on the road be terrified!

Pentagon officials are quick to say the progress in Iraq is still "fragile, " although less fragile than a year ago.

Donations channeled through the foundation did not pay for Wikileaks' editing and production costs behind the Iraq video, he said.

President Bush says opposition demands to pull U. S. troops out of Iraq by October would embolden the enemy.

Iraq had a much richer country, you look at the streets of Baghdad now, who do not scared to go on the road be terrified!

Pentagon officials are quick to say the progress in Iraq is still "fragile, " although less fragile than a year ago.

Donations channeled through the foundation did not pay for Wikileaks' editing and production costs behind the Iraq video, he said.

Hillary Clinton, probably still the frontrunner, would not say whether the war in Iraq is already lost or not.

For a start, Iraq will still need military aid, no matter how much its government throws its weight around.

Will the president acknowledge that his predecessor's "surge" is at least partly responsible for Iraq's relative stability?

Most of the time in Iraq or Afghanistan when Western reporters went out on the front lines, they went on embeds with American troops.

He said that the US had to make preparations for a shift of American soldiers from Iraq to Afghanistan.

He said his visit was to send President Bush's thanks and to reaffirm an "unwavering commitment" from the U. S. to Iraq's future.

Most of the time in Iraq or Afghanistan when Western reporters went out on the front lines, they went on embeds with American troops.

He said that the US had to make preparations for a shift of American soldiers from Iraq to Afghanistan.

He said his visit was to send President Bush's thanks and to reaffirm an "unwavering commitment" from the U. S. to Iraq's future.

Families of two of the three remaining British hostages held in Iraq for two years are deeply troubled to hear the men are likely dead.

China also has a common interest with the United States in improving security in Afghanistan and Iraq, he said.

The American politicians who used to try to be the peace maker in the Middle East disputes stared war on Iraq .

During the presidential campaign, he said he would redeploy troops from Iraq to Afghanistan.

General Petraeus said the threat from Sunni militants of al-Qaida in Iraq has been significantly reduced, but the group is still lethal.

Mr Obama has promised to bring home US combat troops from Iraq in a little over a year from when he takes office in January.

That timetable is in keeping with an agreement reached between the United States and Iraq in the last weeks of the Bush administration.

Mr Obama has promised to bring home US combat troops from Iraq in a little over a year from when he takes office in January.

That timetable is in keeping with an agreement reached between the United States and Iraq in the last weeks of the Bush administration.

Had he still been a network anchor, he said, he would have tried to deliver a similar editorial about the Iraq war.

Military leaders, key allies and opportunistic enemies were all keen to know just how dovish the anti-Iraq-war President intended to be.

In Iraq, a man believed to be a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden has released an audiocassette in which he reportedly mocks President Bush.

Keys has said before that the Air Force is spending a lot of time "trying to find one white SUV racing down the road" in Iraq.

Americans, relieved to be getting out of Iraq, and caught up in a national row about health care, are paying little attention to the place.

She adds that France is ready to help in the reconstructionof Iraq, but it will not take action unless within the UN framework.

Republicans are more than twice as likely as Democrats to see Iran as the top U. S. enemy, while Democrats are likelier to name Iraq.

An al-Qaeda or Baathist group was suspected of trying to destabilize Iraq in the run-up to a general election expected in early March.

She adds that France is ready to help in the reconstructionof Iraq, but it will not take action unless within the UN framework.

Republicans are more than twice as likely as Democrats to see Iran as the top U. S. enemy, while Democrats are likelier to name Iraq.

An al-Qaeda or Baathist group was suspected of trying to destabilize Iraq in the run-up to a general election expected in early March.

On the night that his wife shipped out to Iraq, Henry agreed to let his daughters sleep in bed with him.

He said the mission in Iraq is changing from a military effort led by troops to a civilian effort led by diplomats.

In the build-up to the war, then U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell laid out the case against Iraq before the U. N. Security Council.

Just as the Americans pull out of Iraq, the risk of a conflict between the US and a newly-strengthened Iran is rising.

Witnesses said the killers left a flag at the checkpoint, the black flag of the Islamic State of Iraq.

Mr Biden has said he thinks some of his Republican colleagues are ready for a bipartisan approach to Iraq.

Thankfully, as the United States was bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan during the last decade, Chinese passivity didn't matter much.

Witnesses said the killers left a flag at the checkpoint, the black flag of the Islamic State of Iraq.

Mr Biden has said he thinks some of his Republican colleagues are ready for a bipartisan approach to Iraq.

Thankfully, as the United States was bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan during the last decade, Chinese passivity didn't matter much.

During the first few days of the Iraq war, it was televised live on CCTV all day long.

And indeed, our own internal assessment was very clear that Iraq's WMD did not pose a threat to its neighbors, let alone to us.

Our National Congress should introduce a bill, demanding American troops to stop killing Iraqi people and to get out of Iraq territory.

There was also a study done, that not surprisingly, 92 % of the children in Iraq had learning impediment, due to a climate of fear.

There isn't going to be any sort of an agreement that infringes upon Iraq's sovereignty.

One Gulf businessman told your correspondent that he gave up on a deal in Iraq after nine different officials came to ask him for bribes.

Eventually, she may be able to return to the kind of hazardous duty she did in Iraq, but that's at least a year away, Haynes said.

One Gulf businessman told your correspondent that he gave up on a deal in Iraq after nine different officials came to ask him for bribes.

Eventually, she may be able to return to the kind of hazardous duty she did in Iraq, but that's at least a year away, Haynes said.

The first thing we did in Iraq was take over the oil industry and parcel it out to various companies.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, which come amid heightened ethnic and sectarian tensions in Iraq.

Abizaid said the sectarian violence in Iraq, especially in Baghdad, is as bad as he has ever witnessed.

There was a time when most violence in Iraq was the result of a Sunni insurgency against the foreign occupiers.

Mr Bush told the author Bob Woodward that he would not withdraw from Iraq even if his wife and dog were the only people left on his side.

More than one thousand American soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the war began almost two years ago.

President Bush is trying to counter low poll numbers by refocusing public attention on Iraq and his efforts to improve the U. S. economy.

It warned that Iraq would "face serious consequences" if it were to remain in "material breach" of its disarmament obligations.

It warned that Iraq would "face serious consequences" if it were to remain in "material breach" of its disarmament obligations.

sent confusing signals to Iraq; perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it; a puzzling statement.

Those cousins who have made it out of Iraq alive are part of the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world.

Definitions also bring paradox: Western civilization began in what is now Iraq, but it would be hard to make a case now for Iraq as Western.

He said his biggest regret was not finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that he was misled by intelligence reports.

It feels optimistic, as if representing Mr Siti's ability to see past Iraq's recent sectarian record and into a unified future.

He said Iraq has provided "security guarantees" for CNPC, as it would for any other foreign company that will work in Iraq's oil fields.

As for Iraq itself, after three years of disorientation, the United States has finally found a winning counterinsurgency strategy.

As the war in Iraq winds down and America begins to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, the United States stands at a pivot point.

But the price of his freedom was his oud - to leave Iraq he had to leave his beloved instrument behind.

This war will not BE like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with its decisive liBEration of territory and its swift conclusion.

Mr. Bush's portrait of Mr. Cheney reaffirms many reporters' depiction of him as a steamrolling force for military intervention in Iraq.

U. S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U. S. has no interest in setting up permanent military bases in Iraq.

In addition, the US seems to be bogged down in a protracted war in Iraq that is likely to bleed the country's financial resources further.

After 20 years of the Iran-Iraq war, border cities did not get constructed but houses in Lebanon were constructed by our money.

He said Senator Clinton has still not taken responsibility for her vote to authorize President Bush to invade Iraq five years ago.

Darna, in particular, is said to have contributed a bigger proportion of jihadist fighters in Iraq than any other Arab city.

All this made it inevitable that Kosovo, like Iraq, would be cited as justification for other adventures.

Even so, the fact that America and Iraq are both suddenly talking about a "time horizon" for the withdrawal of troops is not a bad thing.

"The question is at this point not whether or not we should be in Iraq, " he said. "We are there. The question is, what's the end game? "

When I first got back from Iraq, I had people asked me if I was allowed to carry a gun because I'm just a girl.

Such massive transfers of money, however, are susceptible to scams and corruption, as the UN found out in the oil-for-food program in Iraq.

Although one year has passed since Bush announced the conclusion of major combat operations in Iraq, the war is still far from over.

The relationship between EU countries and Mr Wolfowitz had always been strained as a result of his involvement in the Iraq conflict.

At the same time, Mr. Obama said the war in Iraq was a war of "choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. "

But, he said, on two of the dominant elements of his record - tax cuts and Iraq - he had no regrets.

In Iraq the face of the enemy is one that is intent on murdering Iraqi civilians and officials alike, the general said.

Marine Corps Lieutenant Tom Garnett, a US military spokesman in Iraq, said: "The shooter is a US soldier and he is in custody. "

is going to debate the Iraq problem later in the day and "the speech of Blair will be challenged by his own Labor Party" .

S. officials are trying to determine how to help Iraq develop its abilities to fight terrorism.

State-owned China National Petroleum Corp. was one of the first foreign oil companies to sign a major contract in Iraq.

One of the main issues in dispute has been whether U. S. troops accused of crimes in Iraq would be tried by Iraqi courts, or by the U.

Matan Vilna IDF senior officers in Iraq said it was the government trying to shift the world Bashar killing demonstrators on their concerns.

'Iraq today is sovereign and independent, controlling its fate and everything related to its present and future, ' he said.

And a head of steam seemed to be building behind a movement to have him freed as an embodiment of Iraq's suffering.

And with the U. S. pinned down in Iraq and Afghanistan there's little Washington can do to scare Iran into changing its ambitions.

He said the 2006 Iraq Study Group's recommendation for more engagement with Iran has not been implemented.

DESPITE continuing violence and a four-month stalemate over forming a new government, at least you now can fly to Iraq a little more easily.

One of the soldiers was shot in the leg in Iraq, and is now serving in Afghanistan. The other broke a leg on a training exercise.

with a bad grace , the u . s . army agreed to leave iraq next month.

As has "Brian's Apartment" a new film about Iraq redacted which seems to be hailed as a masterpiece by some.

"It has come to the surface now, " he said, "because Iraq is a free country. "

The Iraqi government spokesman has accused Britain of trying to deport failed asylum seekers to Iraq without verifying their identities.

"Your plan is a white flag of surrender in Iraq, and that is not what our troops need to hear today, that's for sure, " she said.

Very few would have thought a year ago that things would be as good as they are in Iraq despite the challenges that remain before us now.

Even as America spends up to $3 billion a week in Iraq, some of your gasoline bill is surely finding its way to al-Qaeda.

Iraq, which had been a British colony from the end of World War I until 1932, was bubbling with internal power struggles.

Straw is one of Blair's most loyal allies and was one of the staunchest supporters of the Iraq war in public.

Officials say it was not necessary to provide weapons to the Iraqi groups, which became known as the Sons of Iraq.

Those ties have been strained throughout much of his presidency, in large part due to the war in Iraq.

Teri Mercill said the greatest gift she could ask for was to see her son baptized before he deploys to Iraq.

But a no-fly zone could save thousands of Libyan lives, just as an earlier one saved Kurds in Iraq.

However, militants in Iraq continued to launch bloody attacks throughout the country, causing thousands of deaths and injuries this year.

And he still says that it was right to invade, because it scared other would-be proliferators and turned Iraq into a peaceful democracy.

Despite such political centrifugal forces, many educators in Iraq are trying to keep a vision of a coherent nation alive.

The worst example of this approach was the U. S. attack on Iraq and its catastrophic consequences.

Since the Iran -Iraq war , the two countries have had a gentlemen's agreement to maintain similar quotas within Opec .

Iraq that has attracted the support of at least two Republicans threatens to expose fissures within the GOP over the unpopular war.

We have begun to leave Iraq to its own people.

The president said one of his greatest "disappointments" was the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

What an honor it is for you to have me here, and what a thrill it is to bring my show to the men and women in the U. S. military in Iraq.

Otherwise he would be in danger of becoming the second Republican president in a row to see his administration destroyed by Iraq.

Larijani said the United States on the Palestinian issue not only reflects the strength of the weakened, and "unable to move in Iraq. "

And in 1995, after four years of deception, Iraq finally admitted it had a crash nuclear weapons program prior to the Gulf War.

Now Obama merely wants Iraq to be the sort of place the U. S. can safely leave behind.

The last U. S. troops are to leave Iraq by the end of 2011, under an agreement between the two countries.

The president promised the American people that the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would come to what he called a responsible end.

A democratic election has been held in Iraq, the violence is down and the Americans look set to leave by the end of next year.

It will not be much consolation for Shell that rivals, too, have their share of problems trying to do business in Iraq.

I think all those goals are still possible, but I think that as a consequence to the war on Iraq, we took our eye off the ball.

"Yet the government was not prepared to go into Afghanistan in 2001, or Iraq in 2003, using large numbers of contractors, " he said.

On Saturday an estimated 50, 000 supporters of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr marched in Baghdad to call for US troops to leave Iraq.

The "Iraq Financial Management Information System" was nearly complete and about to go online at the time of the kidnap.

It has also become a hub for western diplomats, businessmen, aid agencies and military people going in and out of Iraq.

Russia was an ally of Iraq, had many contracts there, and did not approve of Bush invading in 2003.

Arid and desolate Iraq was once a green, lush environment even reputed to be the setting of the Garden of Eden.

For soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, the most dangerous threat comes not in the form of a bullet, but a bomb.

She said she spoke not as a politician but as the mother of an Iraq war veteran.

The best way to understand the potential and pitfalls of this transition is to think about Iraq.

Although the rest of Iraq has been a lot quieter, violence along the Arab-Kurdish border (the "trigger line" ) has been rising.