[Highwayman]

BTW, in case you haven’t noticed, folks are moving back.

BAGHDAD — The drop in violence caused by the U.S. troop increase in Iraq has prompted refugees to begin returning to their homes, American and Iraqi officials said Wednesday.

Tahsin al-Sheikhly, an Iraqi government spokesman, said 46,030 displaced Iraqis had returned last month from outside the country to their homes in the capital. He declined to comment further on how the government determined those statistics.

"People are starting to return to their homes," said Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil, commander of U.S. troops in Baghdad. "There's no question about it."

Such assessments run counter to the overall trend detailed in a recent report by the Iraqi Red Crescent, which said the number of internally displaced people had more than quadrupled over the past year, reaching 2.3 million by the end of September.

Fil said the military had observed a different pattern, with 200 families recently returning to their neighborhoods in the northwestern part of the city.

"There was a time in Baghdad when there was a lot of migration," he said. "That has for some time now largely come to a halt."

The Denver Post - Refugees reported returning to Iraq