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| US general upbeat on Iraq 'surge' |
| The US military commander in Iraq says there are grounds for optimism over the latest security drive.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 19-March-2007
2:52:44 AM |
| Gen David Petraeus told the BBC that with two out of the five extra brigades now on the ground in Iraq, there had been fewer sectarian attacks.
He said he would have an idea of the chance of success once all extra troops were deployed in the coming months.
Attacks in Baghdad killed at least four Iraqis on Sunday, while the US announced the deaths of seven troops.
The violence included:
A car bomb at a popular market in the Shia district of Sadr City, which killed three people and wounded another seven
Four US soldiers were killed and one wounded when their vehicle was ambushed by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad on Saturday, the US military said
Also on Saturday, an explosion in the capital's Diyala province killed one US soldier and injured five others and a US marine died while fighting in Anbar province
'Returning families'
The new "surge" policy is aimed at curbing sectarian and insurgent violence in Baghdad and Anbar province.
Gen Petraeus said: "By early June, we should then have everyone roughly in place - and that will allow us to establish the density in partnership with Iraqi security forces that you need to really get a good grip on the security situation."
He said there were "encouraging signs", although he added that he did not want to get "overly optimistic at all on the basis of several weeks of a reduced sectarian murder rate".
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