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Bomb attacks in Baghdad have hit an all-time high, the U.S. military
said on Wednesday, as one of the capital's frontline police units was
pulled off the streets on suspicion of involvement with sectarian
death squads.
Thousands of police face criminal vetting and lie detectors as part
of a "retraining" process designed to weed out militia killers who
have used the cover of their uniforms to kidnap, torture and commit
mass murder, U.S. officials have said.
The overnight orders to move the 8th National Police Brigade into
barracks and arrest one of its commanders came a day after Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki unveiled a sketchy deal with Sunni leaders
and fellow Shi'ites to try to stem violence. But there was still no
sign of further talks to provide substance.
U.S. military spokesman Major General William Caldwell said the
number of car bombs in Baghdad, both detonated and defused, hit their
highest level of the year last week and that bombs reported in
general were "also at an all-time high."
U.S. and Iraqi forces have mounted a major military operation in the
past two months against militants in Baghdad.
For the second time in two days, four U.S. soldiers were killed in a
single incident around Baghdad, this time in what appears to have
been a substantial skirmish involving mortars or rockets and gunfire
to the northwest. It took the death toll in four days of the month to
15 around Baghdad and 22 in total.
Caldwell described it as a "hard week" for U.S. forces, who typically
suffer two to three deaths a day on average in Iraq.
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