Tuesday, October 24, 2006

U.S. says more GIs may be needed in Iraq (AP)

U.S. soldiers check motorists at a checkpoint in Baghdad October 24 2006. U.S. forces combed a central Baghdad neighbourhood for a missing soldier on Tuesday as rising U.S. casualties and increasing bloodshed in Iraq piled pressure on U.S. President George W. Bush to change his policy.   REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen       (IRAQ)AP - Two weeks before U.S. midterm elections American officials unveiled a timeline Tuesday for Iraq'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.


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