Baghdad's new high-security complex
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Built on a sprawling complex developed by Saddam Hussein in a failed bid to bring the Olympic Games to Baghdad, the so-called judicial Green Zone brings together courts, police and cells &#151; all behind tall blast walls topped with razor wire.
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Walls are an emotive issue in Baghdad. Towering concrete barriers have mushroomed across Iraq's capital, put up by U.S. forces striving to cripple Sunni and Shi'ite militants.
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For weeks, U.S. military leaders in Iraq have been saying that security is improving in Baghdad. But the military's Joint Contracting Command is still urging precautions for U.S. contractors working at the Interior Ministry headquarters.
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The nightlife is zero and most shops are shut, but U.S. and Iraqi forces said Wednesday that a three-day security sweep has cleaned up &#151; at least for now &#151; a mostly Sunni neighborhood in west Baghdad, notorious for kidnappings, murders and bombings.
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The top US general in Iraq says he is confident the new Baghdad security drive can cut sectarian strife.
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Buried in the latest Defense Department quarterly report on Iraq is the disclosure that the Baghdad government is now responsible for setting the size of its security forces, and that it has authorized a level of 550,000 military and police forces -- an increase of more than 40 percent over the...
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The plan calls for Iraqi troops to assume the primary responsibility for security in Baghdad early next year.
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Extra security measures are being introduced in Iraq ahead of Sunday's election - the first since the invasion.
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The firefighting system in the massive $736 million embassy complex in Baghdad has potential safety problems that top U.S. officials dismissed in their rush to declare construction largely completed by the end of last year, according to internal State Department documents, e-mails and interviews.
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Iraq's government plans to encircle Baghdad with trenches to boost security, as dozens more bodies are found.
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Haifa Street is one of the most violent places in Baghdad. Its abandoned high-rise buildings provide ideal cover for Iraqi insurgents.
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President Bush's second-term inauguration is necessitating unprecedented security measures in the nation's capital, including an immense contingent of law enforcement personnel and high tech equipment, the director of the Secret Service said Wednesday.
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Baghdad police collected dozens more   corpses in the city streets on Saturday and U.S. and Iraqi   officials vowed to secure the capital with a new cordon of   checkpoints, earth walls and ditches.
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The United States is expanding its military force in Iraq to the highest level of the war &#151; even higher than during the initial invasion in March 2003 &#151; in order to bolster security in advance of next month's national elections.
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The attack was the most serious breach of an Iraqi government building since November.
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Major U.S.-run detention facilities in Iraq are nearly full, with the number of suspected insurgents in custody at the highest level since March, according to detention officials.
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The Iraqi capital, on edge for months because of unrelenting violence, has shed its business-as-usual veneer and become a city at war.