Troops building Baghdad barrier
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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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BAGHDAD -- Three months after the start of the security plan that has added thousands of American and Iraqi troops to the capital, they control fewer than one-third of the city's neighborhoods, far short of the initial goal for the operation, according to some commanders and an internal military assessment.
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BAQUBAH, Iraq, Nov. 24 -- Army Staff Sgt. John Casey has put a great deal of thought into creating the ideal military checkpoint. After a car bomb blew up at a checkpoint outside Baqubah this month, wounding one soldier, Casey drew up a new plan for how his platoon would inspect civilian cars.
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Iraqi officials plan to dig a series   of trenches around Baghdad in the coming weeks to seal it off   and control movement into and out of the city, The New York   Times reported on Saturday.
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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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Iraqi military officials expressed hope Sunday that security gains from a yearlong crackdown against extremists will allow the removal of thousands of concrete barriers in six months that protect Baghdad residents from bomb attacks.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 10 -- Seven out of 10 Iraqis believe the U.S. troop buildup in Baghdad and Anbar province has made security worse in those areas, and nearly as many say their own lives are going badly, according to a new poll conducted by ABC News, the British Broadcasting Corp., and the Japanese...
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CAMP LEJEUNE, NC -- Camp Lejeune Marines patrolling south of Baghdad, Iraq, are getting help from British troops. The 24th Marine Exepeditionary Unit of some 2,200 troops says it is being reinforced by some
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U.S. Army engineers have torn down houses and surrounded the newly cleared space with razor wire atop concrete blast walls for neighborhood bases, the first outward signs of the coming Baghdad security crackdown.
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The project will ring Baghdad with trenches and set up traffic checkpoints to control movement in and out of the city.
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Hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. troops cordoned off sections of Baghdad's Sadr City slum early Wednesday
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched attacks on Baghdad's northern and southern flanks to clear out Sunni insurgents, al-Qaida fighters and Shiite militiamen who had fled the capital and Anbar during a four-month-old security operation, military officials said Monday.
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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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Thousands of U.S. troops swept house-to-house through mostly Shiite areas virtually unopposed Wednesday in the opening phase of the long-awaited Baghdad security crackdown. But four U.S. soldiers were killed outside of the capital in an area not covered by the operation.
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Hundreds of British soldiers being deployed to provide cover for U.S. troops have arrived at their base near Baghdad, the Ministry of Defense said Friday.
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BAGHDAD -- The plan was simple: Iraqi troops would block escape routes while US soldiers searched for weapons house by house. But the Iraqi troops didn't show up on time.
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The plan calls for Iraqi troops to assume the primary responsibility for security in Baghdad early next year.