US paratroopers deploy in Baghdad
MORE than 3000 US paratroopers have landed in Baghdad to help quell raging sectarian violence, the military announced today, after US losses surged with 19 troops killed in a helicopter crash, a gunbattle and bomb attacks.
On the political front, MPs who back radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said they were ending a nearly two-month-old parliamentary boycott, a move that could help shore up beleaguered Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government.
The US military said the 3,200 paratroopers, in Baghdad as part of the new security plan announced by US President George W. Bush, will be fully operational on or about February 1.
"The effort represents the first of several planned troop movements that will assist Iraqi security forces in reducing violence and protecting Iraqi citizens," it said.
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On the political front, MPs who back radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said they were ending a nearly two-month-old parliamentary boycott, a move that could help shore up beleaguered Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government.
The US military said the 3,200 paratroopers, in Baghdad as part of the new security plan announced by US President George W. Bush, will be fully operational on or about February 1.
"The effort represents the first of several planned troop movements that will assist Iraqi security forces in reducing violence and protecting Iraqi citizens," it said.
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