IRAQ: UNITED STATES TROOPS TIGHTEN SECURITY AND SEARCH WHERE A SOLDIER WAS SHOT RECENTLY

Record ID: 338390

  • Title: IRAQ: UNITED STATES TROOPS TIGHTEN SECURITY AND SEARCH WHERE A SOLDIER WAS SHOT RECENTLY
  • Date: 12th January 2004
  • Summary: (W6) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JANUARY 11, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV U.S. SOLDIERS SET ROAD BLOCKS; MV U.S. SOLDIER BODY-SEARCHING MAN; SLV U.S. SOLDIERS SEARCHING CARS; MV U.S. FEMALE SOLDIER BODY-SEARCHING A WOMAN; SCU U.S. SOLDIER SEARCHING HANDBAG OF WOMAN; MV U.S. SOLDIER BODY-SEARCHING A MAN (10 SHOTS) 0.53 2. SCU SIGN READING: "STOP. TAKE ORDERS FROM S
  • Embargoed: 27th January 2004 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVADWJL36SS9TEPU4RM5HJZXUAKY
  • Story Text: U.S. Troops tighten security and search an area in
    southwest Baghdad where a soldier was shot last week.

    To hunt insurgents, U.S. troops manned checkpoints
    on Sunday (January 11) in Dora neighbourhood, southwest
    Baghdad, where a U.S. convoy was targeted on January 2.

    U.S. soldiers deployed on the road and stopped and
    searched cars heading into the area, and body-searched
    pedestrians.

    "On January 2nd we had a U.S. forces get injured, a
    young soldier lost his leg on the other side of the river,"
    said Captain Bruce Carter.

    The Americans are intensifying search operations to
    deter attacks on its troops which Washington has blamed on
    loyalists of former president Saddam Hussein.

    U.S. forces have been launching frequent attacks in the
    outskirts of Baghdad on areas of suspected hideouts of
    insurgent fighters.

    US troops have also been conducting a major offensive,
    called Operation Iron Grip, in which rebel positions on the
    outskirts of the capital have been hammered with artillery
    and canon fire, sending thunderous booms across the capital
    at all hours.


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