Trench defense suggested for Baghdad
Widespread suicide attacks, such as Saturday's, have prompted Iraqi
security officials to propose blocking entrances into Baghdad with
trenches and stricter checkpoints, Col. Abdul Karim Khalaf said.
However, the Interior Ministry and the U.S. and Iraqi military must
approve the idea, designed to keep weapons and suicide bombers out,
before it is included in the Baghdad security plan.
"It is up to the commanders," Khalaf said.
The U.S. military did not immediately confirm information about the
proposal.
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Police: Body lures soldiers to booby-trapped car
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two Iraqi soldiers were killed Saturday after
they unwittingly approached a booby-trapped car in Baghdad to check on a
body planted in the front seat, an emergency police official said.
The explosive-packed car on Haifa Street in central Baghdad blew up at
10 a.m.
The attack happened on the same day Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
appealed to Iraqis to set aside sectarian differences and embrace his
national reconciliation plan, The Associated Press reported.
Adding to the tally of deaths in Baghdad blamed on sectarian violence,
Iraqi security forces have found 47 more bodies, mostly bullet-riddled
and showing signs of torture, around the city in the past 24 hours, a
Baghdad police official said.
Since Tuesday, more than 150 bodies have been found dumped across the
capital in what authorities believe are Shiites and Sunnis killing one
another.
A second car bomb on Saturday targeted a patrol of U.S. military and
Iraqi police in southern Baghdad, killing an Iraqi civilian and wounding
22 others.
No officers or military personnel were harmed in the attack, which
happened near a police station in the Doura district, a Baghdad
emergency police official said.
In eastern Baghdad, a roadside bomb wounded two police officers as their
patrol neared Shaab stadium.
Trench defense suggested for Baghdad
Widespread suicide attacks, such as Saturday's, have prompted Iraqi
security officials to propose blocking entrances into Baghdad with
trenches and stricter checkpoints, Col. Abdul Karim Khalaf said.
However, the Interior Ministry and the U.S. and Iraqi military must
approve the idea, designed to keep weapons and suicide bombers out,
before it is included in the Baghdad security plan.
"It is up to the commanders," Khalaf said.
The U.S. military did not immediately confirm information about the
proposal.
The Health Ministry said the Baghdad morgue received 1,850 bodies in
July; 1,350 in June; 1,398 in May; 1,155 in April; 1,294 in March; and
1,110 in February.
Although Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the commander of the Multi-National
Corps in Iraq, reported a decrease in sectarian violence during the
month since the Baghdad security plan went into effect, he acknowledged
that sectarian violence persisted. (Watch the debate over U.S. troop
strength in Iraq -- 2:23)
He said U.S. and Iraqi forces needed to get a handle on how and why
Shiite-Sunni killings continue.
CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.
