Pentagon Plans to Send More Troops to Iraq (AP)

By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer

WASHINGTON - Anticipating a new burst of insurgent violence, the
Pentagon plans to expand the U.S. force in
Iraq to improve security for a planned October referendum and a December election.

A U.S. soldier and interpreter unload a sheep purchased as a gift for a promoted Iraqi police officer from the back of a US combat vehicle in western Mosul, Saturday, July 30, 2005, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. U.S. forces are training some 1,500 police officers in the western half of the city. (AP

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