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In recent days, the Bush administration has said it will not contribute troops to any international peacekeeping force for Lebanon. U. S stephen stills treetop . military officials in Baghdad have said they hope to show concrete results in Ramadi by August, which could allow Iraqi forces to take over more responsibilities in the city But U. S steve stills . troops in Ramadi say they are loath to quickly pull out for fear of letting the insurgency rise once more in the city. Despite the increase in forces in both Baghdad and Ramadi, Army Lt Gen Peter W Chiarelli, the U. S stepen stills . officer in charge of day-to-day operations in Iraq, said in an interview Wednesday that he did not think the new security plan would make it impossible to draw down troops in the fall. The military is not putting a specific timetable on the Baghdad plan, but like the Ramadi offensive, it is expected to be a long, manpower-intensive operation that will move through the capital neighborhood by neighborhood and could take months. “Not overnight, and we are not going to fix it immediately,” Chiarelli said when asked about the timetable. The bulk of the new forces in Baghdad probably will come from the 172nd Brigade and another unit that is currently moving into Iraq from Ft Lewis, Wash crosby stills . That unit, the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division, is also equipped with Strykers, a new family of combat vehicles that are more mobile than heavily armored tanks and personnel carriers. Military officials in Baghdad refused to discuss the specifics of where the extra troops would come from.

But police training teams that were supposed to be heading north to Kirkuk and Tikrit are expected to be diverted to Baghdad, as will teams that had been headed west to restive Al Anbar province, of which Ramadi is the capital. “It is time to focus, it is time to make Baghdad the main effort,” Chiarelli said “This country is Baghdad-centric stephen stills alone . I still believe if you can do things right in Baghdad it will have a tremendous secondary effect all over those areas we are having problems in now. “*Spiegel reported from Washington and Barnes from Baghdad. Last week, the brigade had sent a 170-soldier advance team back to Ft Wainwright, Alaska, to prepare for the unit’s return stepehn stills . The first 200 members of the brigade’s 3,800-soldier main force flew back to Alaska on Tuesday, Army Maj if i could only remember my name . Kirk Gohlke, the unit’s spokesman, said. Gohlke said the 172nd’s commander, Col crosby stills nash young albums . Michael Shields, held a 90-minute videoconference Wednesday night with families in Alaska to inform them of the plan to extend the tour. Shields emphasized that the unit had been personally selected by Rumsfeld for the mission, a sign of how important it was, Gohlke said. But he acknowledged that families were disappointed. “The families and the soldiers are human,” he said. “They reacted the way anyone would react. “Rumsfeld addressed the effect of the altered plans Thursday at the Pentagon. “If you extend somebody, is there some disappointment that they wouldn’t be home when they thought they might be home? Sure,” Rumsfeld said.

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