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Pentagon Plans to Boost Baghdad Security

Nov-29-2006 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

The Associated Press

The Pentagon is developing plans to send four more battalions of U.S. troops to Iraq early next year to boost security in Baghdad, senior defense officials said Wednesday. Meanwhile, a closely watched bipartisan commission studying U.S. policy in Iraq said it would release its report next week.

The extra combat engineer battalions of reserves to be sent to Baghdad would total about 3,500 troops, officials said. They said the units would come from around the United States and have already done a tour in Iraq, but they said there has been no final decision on which battalions will go.[...]

In addition, military leaders are shifting brigades within Iraq. The officials said they are moving a Stryker Brigade into Baghdad to help shore up security there. The 3rd Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division will move from Mosul in northern Iraq, down to Baghdad to replace a Stryker brigade that has gone home to Alaska.

The 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division is moving into Iraq and heading up to Mosul to take its place, officials said.[...]


Comments For "Pentagon Plans to Boost Baghdad Security":

Please pray for all our soldiers headed for Baghdad... I know I am praying not just for my son (in the Stryker unit mentioned in the article) but for all our soldiers in Iraq.

Posted by: TariMuth [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 29, 2006 7:03 PM

I am praying too, and my family,My church, Not only for the protection of my son but also his fellow soldiers. God bless all of them,For us, we need to trust God and hang there until they too come home for good.I now is hard,is hard for them is hard for us. We need to keep suporting each other, Eddie's dad 5/20.

Posted by: STRYKERDAD,PR [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 29, 2006 9:50 PM

I have been praying everyday for our soldiers . We need to have faith that it will get better over there.


Every body in my family is praying .


God Speed

Posted by: Troopsuppoter84 [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 30, 2006 5:26 AM

I have been praying everyday for our soldiers . We need to have faith that it will get better over there.


Every body in my family is praying .


God Speed

Posted by: Troopsuppoter84 [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 30, 2006 5:26 AM

Thank God that they are home. Our church and my younger son's school have been praying for all our brave soldiers will come home safely. For the ones who didn't, we thank for your ultimate sacrifice and God speed for your families.

Posted by: Ervin Stryker Pop of Joe [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 30, 2006 8:38 AM

Thank God that our wonderful soldiers are home. Our church and my younger son's school have been praying for all our brave soldiers will come home safely. For the ones who didn't, we thank for your ultimate sacrifice- you will not be forgotten and God speed for your families.

Posted by: Ervin Stryker Pop of Joe [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 30, 2006 8:42 AM

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