Trenches plan to secure Baghdad
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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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The U.S. commander for northern Iraq called for reinforcements yesterday, citing a rise in sectarian attacks and other violence in his region as Iraqi and American forces focus on securing Baghdad.
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Iraq plans to close its borders with Iran and Syria for 72 hours in an attempt to secure the capital, the Iraqi commander in charge of Baghdad's security plan announced Tuesday.
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The senior U.S. commander in Iraq is preparing a plan for military operations that sets summer 2009 as the goal for achieving a sustainable level of security throughout the country, his spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Some 850 British troops and support personnel will move to patrol areas closer to Baghdad following a US request, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon says.
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It was a week ago that it was first disclosed that soldiers from the Black Watch regiment had been told to prepare to deploy to an area south of Baghdad to help out the Americans planning a fresh assault on Falluja.
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BAGHDAD -- US military and Iraqi security forces have begun a massive effort to seal off Baghdad with a ring of reinforced checkpoints, berms, trenches, barriers, and fences, in an attempt to clamp down on insurgents, officials said yesterday.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces on Monday were preparing to launch a major security crackdown in Baghdad to curb sectarian bloodshed as a wave of bombings pushed the country's death toll to more than 1,000 in seven days.
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The Black Watch battalion has begun moving from Basra to take over an area near Baghdad in a move that could set the stage for a US attack on rebel-held Falluja.
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In an effort to restore security in Baghdad, the U.S. military plans to move at least three more battalions of American soldiers into the Iraqi capital, a senior Pentagon official said.
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About 850 British troops in Iraq are moving north toward Baghdad from the city of Basra. The arrival of the British troops appears to further indicate an impending major ground assault west of Baghdad.
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British troops could be moved to Baghdad to provide cover for American troops as they carry out offensive operations against insurgents in Fallujah and elsewhere in the country, media reports said Saturday.
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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 plan calls for Iraqi troops to assume the primary responsibility for security in Baghdad early next year.
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Heavily armored, elite British troops will move closer to Baghdad, allowing US forces to redeploy and ratchet up operations against militants in Falluja and other rebellion-stoked cities.
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The Bush administration has shunned setting any timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. But talk to leading U.S. soldiers in Baghdad and it quickly becomes evident they have a timeline in mind.
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The US-led assault on Fallujah is the first of what promises to be a series of military operations to secure towns and cities where insurgents could