New Iraq Security Cordon to Ring Baghdad By PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The government announced Thursday that a security cordon of 40,000 Iraqi soldiers and police will ring Baghdad starting next week to try to halt a spree of insurgent violence that has killed more than 620 people this month.
The interior minister, meanwhile, said his office believes militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was wounded, while an Internet statement claimed that Iraq's most feared terrorist group had appointed a deputy to fill in for the Jordanian.
At least 11 Iraqis died in violence nationwide, including a child, during clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents in the northern city of Tal Afar. Among those killed were a university professor, slain in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, and three policemen who died in a car bombing in the capital.
The military also said a U.S. Marine died of wounds sustained a day earlier during the launch of an anti-insurgent offensive involving about 1,000 U.S. troops in the western city of Haditha.
Capito?
La capacità operatuva USa si riduce.. dai 5000 uomini delle operazioni a Falluja siamo scesi ai 2500 della Matador.. oggi sono solo 1000 le unità utilizzabili in offensiva.
Pare però che le controffensive USA degli altri giorni siano andate benino.. forse riescono a espellere gli insorti da Baghdad e circondarla con uno schieramento difensivo.. mah..




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