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Number of troops in Baghdad
♦ ''Obviously, the violence in Baghdad is still terrible'' —Bush
♦ US troops in Baghdad proper increased from 8,000 to 13,500 since late July.
♦ 13,500 is about 10% of total US troop strength in Iraq.
♦ Baghdad has population of about 6 million = 22% of Iraq's 26.78 million.
♦ Total troops in Iraq increased from 14 to 15 divisions.
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Army Recalling 300 Troops to Iraq
Aug. 14, 2006, By LOLITA C. BALDOR
WASHINGTON - About 300 Alaska-based soldiers sent home from Iraq just before their unit's deployment was extended last month must now go back, the Army said Monday, setting up a wrenching departure for troops and families who thought their service there was finished.
The soldiers, all from the 172nd Stryker Brigade, are among the 380 troops who had gotten home to Fort Wainwright when Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ordered the unit to serve four more months. The remaining 80 will not have to return to Iraq.
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Forces to target 4 'hotspots' in Baghdad
Aug. 12, 2006, By ROBERT BURNS AP Military Writer
Maj. Gen. James Thurman, commander of the Army's 4th Infantry Division, said the renewed push for stability began Aug. 7 in the Dora area of southwestern Baghdad, a notoriously violent part of the city. He said sweeps of Dora neighborhoods had captured 179 people thus far and killed 25 "terrorists."
The other three targeted districts are Mansour and the Ghazaliyah-Shula areas of western Baghdad and the Azamiyah area in the northeast, he said.
A few of the soldiers in his audience were with the Alaska-based 172nd Stryker Brigade, whose one-year tour of duty in Iraq was extended by four months recently in order to add another 3,500 soldiers to Thurman's force in the capital. Thurman said he has received another 2,000 extra troops from other units.
Thurman said he now has 32,444 U.S. troops in Baghdad and areas south of the capital, as well as 32,554 Iraqi forces. Of the U.S. total, about 13,500 are in Baghdad proper, he said.
In his remarks to troops at Thurman's headquarters, Pace disclosed that the plan earlier this summer was to reduce the total number of U.S. combat brigades this fall to 12 from the 14 that were operating at the time. Instead a brigade that had been held in reserve in Kuwait was brought into Iraq and the 172nd was retained even as its replacement—a brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division—arrived.
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Gen. Peter Chiarelli Discusses the Stryker Brigade Campaign
Aug. 8, 2006, ABC News story?id=2288564
BAGHDAD, Iraq, — - Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the commanding general of the multinational forces in Iraq, had the difficult duty today of telling 3,700 soldiers why they were going to have to stay in Iraq a while longer. A few weeks ago, hours before they had expected to go home, the soldiers heard from their commander that their tours of duty were being extended.=]
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Pentagon Extends Tour for 4,000 Troops, Increasing Number in Iraq
July 30, 2006, NY Times
BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 29 - The tours of 4,000 American soldiers who had been scheduled to leave Iraq in the coming weeks have been extended for up to four months, signaling that there would almost certainly be no significant troop pullout before the year's end, military officials and analysts said Saturday.
A separate military statement on Saturday said 3,700 members of the 172nd Brigade were being sent to Baghdad. The eight-wheel Stryker vehicles the brigade uses are smaller and more maneuverable than the Bradley fighting vehicles and M1 Abrams tanks, making them better suited for urban combat.
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By EDWARD WONG; ABDUL RAZZAQ AL-SAIEDI CONTRIBUTED REPORTING FOR THIS ARTICLE.
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Baghdad Chaos Pushes Bush to Shift U.S. Troops
July 26, 2006, NY Times
WASHINGTON, July 25 - President Bush announced an agreement with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki on Tuesday to significantly strengthen the United States military presence in the city.
Under the new security plan, some 4,000 United States troops would move into Baghdad, to join the same number of Iraqi counterparts. The United States has about 128,000 troops in Iraq, approximately 7,200 of them in Baghdad.
''Obviously, the violence in Baghdad is still terrible, and therefore there needs to be more troops,'' Mr. Bush said.
By JIM RUTENBERG; DAVID E. SANGER AND KATE ZERNIKE CONTRIBUTED REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON FOR THIS ARTICLE, AND KIRK SEMPLE AND EDWARD WONG FROM BAGHDAD.
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