As in Anbar, the areas in Baghdad with the most violence have the fewest troops. From today’s New York Times:
On Thursday, the senior American military spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, said scores of mutilated bodies found in the middle of the week appeared to be ”from murder execution-style type activity.” He said the rise in killings was occurring in parts of Baghdad where American forces had not swept through as part of the new security push.
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