Top US Commander: We May Need More Troops In Iraq...

Associated Press Steven R. Hurst October 24, 2006 08:20 PM

Two weeks before U.S. midterm elections, American officials unveiled a timeline Tuesday forIraq's Shiite-led government to take specific steps to calm the world's most dangerous capital and said more U.S. troops might be needed to quell the bloodshed.

U.S. officials previously said they were satisfied with troop levels and had expected to make significant reductions by year's end. But a surge in sectarian killings, which welled up this past summer, forced them to reconsider.

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