Iraqi Citizens Fight Back

The election took a lot of wind out of the Iraqi insurgency. According to reports from the area, attacks are way down from where they were prior to January 30th. It appears that some of the local folks have decided that they've had enough as well (hat tip Best of The Web Today):

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.

Now the people of this mixed village of Sunni and Shia Muslims, they ignored the threat and they did turn out to vote.

We understand that last night the insurgents came back to punish the people of al-Mudhariya, but instead of metering [sic] 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.

Look out bad guys, the villagers have your number!