GENERAL: CRACKDOWN ON IRAQI INSURGENTS BACKFIRING…

The New York Times KIRK SEMPLE and JOHN O'NEIL October 19, 2006 12:16 PM

The American-led crackdown in Baghdad has not succeeded in quelling violence across the capital and a new approach is needed, a military spokesman said today.

Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the senior spokesman for the American military in Iraq, said that the strategy of concentrating on a limited number of highly troubled neighborhoods had not slowed sectarian violence in the city as a whole.

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