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U.S. enforcements arrive in Baghdad

Aug- 5-2006 » Filed Under: 172nd SBCT

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By SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. reinforcements sent to Baghdad to help quell sectarian violence and clamp down on other attacks took up positions in a restive neighborhood Saturday, while two bombs at a market northeast of the city wounded eight people.

The 3,700 soldiers of the Army's 172nd Stryker Brigade moved in from the northern city of Mosul to bolster U.S. and Iraqi security forces already in the city.

Several Stryker armored fighting vehicles were seen Saturday in Baghdad's mostly Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliyah in the western part. Iraqi police used loudspeakers to encourage residents to go about their business and reopen shops because the troops were there to protect them.[...]

Iraq's Defense Ministry and police announced that 55 suspected insurgents had been captured around Mosul after a flare-up of violence there Friday. Authorities also reported the arrests of 22 other insurgents in the western city of Ramadi and two in Baghdad.

Duraid Mohammed Kashmoula, governor of Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital, said 20 militants were believed to have been killed during prolonged street gunfights with security forces in the city's eastern neighborhoods Friday.

"The terrorists thought that police were going to run away," like they did during a major clash in November 2004, Kashmoula said. "But this will not happen again. We will not give them that opportunity."[...]


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