Half US troop reinforcements now in Iraq -military

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Source: Reuters Alertnet

Half US troop reinforcements now in Iraq -military

BAGHDAD, April 1 (Reuters) - About half of the nearly 30,000 additional U.S. troops being sent to Iraq in a new effort to stabilise the country have now been deployed, a senior U.S. military official said on Sunday.

The rest were either in staging areas in neighbouring Kuwait or on their way, Rear Admiral Mark Fox told a news conference in Baghdad. In total there are about 140,000 U.S. troops now in Iraq.

"We expect the remainder to be in place by early June," he said.

Most of the troops are being sent to Baghdad for a U.S.-backed security crackdown to curb rampant sectarian violence. Reinforcements are also being sent to western Anbar province, heartland of the Sunni Arab insurgency.

Fox cautioned that the success of the Baghdad crackdown, codenamed Operation Imposing Law, would not be seen in days or weeks but in months. He was speaking after the bloodiest week since the operation began in mid-February.



Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL138824.htm

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[orpupilofnature57]

1. " Imposing " is the first time a word in one of their fucked up phrases ..

... expresses the function it performs ,"Imposing" has a negative inference for a reason ,it's wrong.