An Iraqi city becomes turnaround story | csmonitor.com:
"[...] Each time an attack originated in the area, Risberg would have a nearby palm grove shelled, sometimes as often as every 15 minutes the whole night. He'd also further restrict residents' movement. 'We were trying to show them that you're going to help us clean up this area or you're going to pay the price,'' he explains. 'I didn't care which.'
When local families complained that the shelling frightened their kids, he'd tell them to help hand over insurgents - only then would the shelling stop. They also replaced the local mayor and the town council, who seemed sympathetic to the insurgency. Eventually, he and others in his battalion say, the approach got results. [...]"
