Bush 'Surge' Plan Behind Schedule

McClatchy Newspapers Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay, Renee Schoof February 28, 2007 03:01 PM

Meanwhile, top U.S. intelligence officials disclosed that the deployment of Iraqi forces into Baghdad under President Bush's new plan to stabilize Iraq is running behind schedule and that all of the units sent so far have arrived under strength, some by more than half.

Top military officials, speaking at the same hearing with Rice, gave a mixed review on the early implementation of the plan, which is aimed at ending carnage in the capital between Shiites and Sunni Muslims.

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