Sunday, August 06, 2006

U.S. Enforcements Arrive in Baghdad

U.S. Reinforcements Beef Up Security in Violent Baghdad Neighborhood; Bombings Wound 8

BAGHDAD, Iraq Aug 5, 2006 (AP)— U.S. reinforcements sent to Baghdad to help quell sectarian violence and clamp down on other attacks took up positions in a restive neighborhood Saturday, while two bombs at a market northeast of the city wounded eight people.

The 3,700 soldiers of the Army's 172nd Stryker Brigade moved in from the northern city of Mosul to bolster U.S. and Iraqi security forces already in the city.

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