Iraq to Dig Trenches Around Baghdad

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Iraq to Dig Trenches Around Baghdad
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Sep 15, 6:02 PM (ET)

By REBECCA SANTANA

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi security forces will dig trenches around Baghdad and set up checkpoints along all roads leading into the city to reduce some of the violence plaguing the capital, the Interior Ministry said Friday.

To help halt that bloodshed, more U.S. troops have been shifted to Baghdad from the insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, a senior U.S. commander said.

Meanwhile, a U.S. Marine was killed Friday in Anbar province, and an American soldier was killed Thursday evening by a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad, the military said. Five American soldiers died Thursday, making it an especially bloody day for U.S. forces.


An Iraqi army soldier on top of his armored vehicle patrols on a deserted street during prayer day vehicle ban, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept.15, 2006. The bodies of 29 people who appeared to have been torture before being killed where found strewn around Baghdad, police said Friday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)


A U.S. soldier is missing from a suicide bombing 30 miles west of Baghdad that killed two of those soldiers, U.S. military officials said.

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