Commanders Say US Can Protect Just 146 Of 457 Baghdad Neighborhoods
The American assessment, completed in late May, found that American and Iraqi forces were able to “to protect the population” and “maintain physical influence over” only 146 of the 457 Baghdad neighborhoods.
In the remaining 311 neighborhoods, troops have either not begun operations aimed at rooting out insurgents or still face “resistance,” according to the one-page assessment, which summarized reports from brigade and battalion commanders in Baghdad.
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