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U.S. Military Seeks Additional Forces for Iraq
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 12, 2004 03:24pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Monday, April 12, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Commanders Disappointed With Performance of Iraqi Forces; 2 U.S. Soldiers, 7 Contractors Missing After Convoy Attacked
By Sewell Chan and William Branigin
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, April 12, 2004; 3:15 PM
BAGHDAD, April 12 -- Top U.S. military commanders expressed disappointment Monday with the performance of Iraqi security forces in countering an intensifying insurgency and said they were requesting thousands of additional U.S. forces to meet the threat.
The commanders said two U.S. soldiers and seven employees of the American construction company Kellogg Brown and Root were missing in Iraq after an attack on a convoy near Baghdad's airport Friday. A statement issued Monday by the firm's parent company, Halliburton, confirmed that seven employees were missing, including Thomas Hamill, a truck driver from Mississippi. The identities of the six others were not disclosed.
In a news conference in Baghdad with Pentagon reporters by video link, Gen. John Abizaid, the commander of all U.S. forces in the Middle East, and Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who commands forces of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, also said a tenuous ceasefire was holding Monday in Fallujah, a turbulent city west of Baghdad that has been a hotbed of Sunni Muslim resistance to the occupation. They said U.S. forces south of Baghdad were poised to attack a militia loyal to a radical Shiite Muslim cleric in the holy city of Najaf, with a mission to kill or capture him. |
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