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Article: Save Baghdad.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat News Service
- Article date:
- October 30, 2006
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After three years of trying to thwart a potent insurgency and tamp down the violence in Iraq, the US military is playing its last hand: the Baghdad security plan. The plan will be tweaked, adjusted and modified in the weeks ahead, as American commanders attempt to reverse a dismaying increase in murders, drive-by shootings and bombings.
But military commanders in Baghdad see no plausible alternative to their bedrock strategy to clear violence-ridden neighbourhoods of militias, insurgents and arms caches, hold them with Iraqi and American security forces, and then try to win over the population with reconstruction projects, underwritten mainly by the Iraqi ...