European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 5 2007 stars and stripes Page Baghdad crackdown alters violence by Sandra Jontz stars and stripes Baghdad the Security crackdown in Iraq capital has spurred insurgents to carry out More High profile car and Sui Cid Ebelt bombings of soft tar gets of civilians and has pushed the insurgents to the outskirts of the City officials said at a wednes Day news conference operation Fard Alq Anoon or enforcing the Law and the Over All Baghdad Security plan now move into a second phase an iraqi official said with ramped up Security missions in the outskirts of Baghdad military firepower alone will not win this War in Iraq the Effort needs the Aid of the iraqi pop Ulace said Ali Aldabbagh an iraqi government spokesman we need representation of the iraqi people to improve the Secu Rity situation not just the Ameri cans he said wednesday during a joint press briefing with maj Gen William Caldwell spokes Man for multinational Force Iraq and Brig Gen Michael Walsh commander of the us army corps of engineers Gulf Region division three of five additional us military brigades Are in place in and around Baghdad and two More Are expected in country by the end of May additional Marine corps units Are coming in and will be put in Anbar prov Ince Caldwell said exact locations of the troops military member discount Telephone High Speed Del sat or Cable services everywhere in Germany we Are the special Ste in finding a service to fit everyone need Sand budget same Day i asap and Del Interne activations Low Cost Inte Sbona phone rates rate Telephone Del Cable sat and  English sat Cable to eng ssh baling and support ask about vat farms info 0637160753 fax 66371607541 Al email or visit wow Buncom save 10 euro mothers Day bears m l up to tall fast worldwide shipping say i love you in a big Way Bisp Luscom styles of giant stuffed animals Yoi Mutl Gokmun cation provider overseas 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letting people move More freely Aldabbagh said curfew now runs from 10 pm to 5 am in Stead of 8 pm to 6 am Walsh highlighted Progress on 2500 identified reconstruction projects of which 2000 have been completed and upgrades in electricity water Supply and sewage systems seventy five percent of the nation receives More Power today than it did before the invasion in 2003 Walsh said what is complicating matters is demand for electricity which has increased by 70 percent in that same time period indicative of More people using appliances such As washing machines air conditioning televisions and satellite dishes he said also on wednesday an indirect fire attack hit the Green zone a rocket or mortar round struck a parking lot around 2 pm Damag ing vehicles though no injuries were reported email Sandra Jontz at Gates sees More violence if military funding is Cut the associated press Al proposals to restrict us Mili tary operations in Iraq by provid ing Only targeted funding could unleash More ethnic bloodshed defense Secretary Robert Gates said wednesday limiting War funding to Only certain training or counter terror ism missions could pull troops from Baghdad neighbourhoods the focus of the latest military buildup in Iraq one real possibility is if we abandon some of these areas and withdraw into the Countryside or whatever to do these targeted mis Sions that you could have a fairly significant ethnic cleansing inside Baghdad or in Iraq More broadly Gates said in a radio interview wednesday Senate majority Leader Harry Reid last week said he will pro pose legislation to Cut off funds for combat operations and pro vide Money for Only three mis Sions targeted counter terrorism operations training and equip Ping the iraqi Security forces and to provide Security for us personnel and infrastructure attacks in Iraq target Utility workers police we accept vat forms ant have served american customers for Over 45 years by Bushra Jum the associated press Baghdad gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying Power Plant workers wednesday in a predominantly sunni area West of Kirkuk killing six men officials said a suicide car bomber and a mortar attack also hit a police Sta Tion being manned by us and iraqi forces in the shiite Sadr City enclave in Baghdad wounding two policemen and two civilians police said Concrete barriers prevented the attacker from reaching the build ing but he detonated his explosives at the first checkpoint about 350 Yards away about the same time a mortar round slammed into the station damaging three humvee the police said the us military said there was a mortar attack followed by another explosion which could have been a car bomb near the so called joint Security station in Sadr City but no us casualties were reported joint Security stations have been set up throughout the capital As part of Security crackdown that entered its eighth week wednesday the violence came As the us military said it was disappointed in the High numbers of iraqis being killed despite the Security crackdown at least 17 people were killed or found dead in Iraq including the six men killed in the ambush West of the Oil Rich Northern City of Kirkuk in other violence wednesday police said gunmen attacked a police patrol about 6 am near bad Cuba 35 Miles Northeast of Baghdad kill ing four officers six of the gun men were killed in a subsequent gun Battle two mortar rounds also slammed into a House in the pre dominantly shiite town of Khalis 50 Miles North of Baghdad just after Midnight killing a woman and wounding two other women and a 4yearold boy b a mortar attack struck a mainly shiite area in Eastern Baghdad wounding five civilians and damaging some houses us deaths in Iraq the associated press As of tuesday at least 3257 members of the us military have died since the beginning of the Iraq War in March 2003 according to an associated press count the figure includes seven military civilians at least 2624 died As a result of hostile action according to the Mili Tarys numbers since the Start of us Mili tary operations in Iraq 24476 us service members have been wounded in hostile action according to the defense departments weekly tally the latest deaths reported by the military no deaths reported the latest identifications re ported by the military army sol Joe Polo 24 opa Locka Fia died thursday in Baghdad of wounds from an explosive and Small arms fire assigned to the 2nd battalion 12th infantry regiment 2nd brigade combat team 2nd in Fantry division fort Carson Colo 1st it Neale m Shank 25 fort Wayne ind died saturday in Baghdad in an incident not related to com Bat assigned to the 1st squad Ron 89th cavalry regiment 2nd brigade combat team 10th Mountain division fort Dumny Marine pfc Miguel a Marcial m 19 Secaucus n j died sunday in Anbar prov Ince assigned to the 1st Battal Ion 2nd Marine regiment 2nd Marine division h Marine expeditionary Force Camp Lejeune no Marine Lance Cpl Daniel r Olsen 20 Eagan Minn died monday during combat in Anbar province assigned to the 2nd battalion 7th Marine regiment 1st Marine Divi Sion i Marine expeditionary Force Twenty nine Palms Calif army staff sol Bradley d King 28 Marion ind died monday in Amariyah after an explosive detonated near his vehicle assigned to the 2nd battalion 152nd infantry regi ment 76m infantry brigade Marion ind army pc Brian e Ritzberg 24 new York City died monday in Balad of wounds from an explosive in Kirkuk assigned to the 977th military police company 97th military police battalion 1st infantry division fort Riley Kan four army soldiers were killed sunday when an explosive detonated near their vehicle in Baghdad the soldiers assigned to the 2nd brigade special troops battalion 2nd brigade combat team 10th Mountain division fort drum by were 9 staff sgt David a Mejias 26 san Juan puerto Rico staff sol Eric r Vick 25 Spring Hope no sol Robert m Mcdowell 30 Deer Park Texas pc William g Bowling 24 Beattyville by