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BAGHDAD, April 1 -- Attacks against U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces soared across Baghdad in the last week of March to the highest levels since the deployment of additional U.S. troops here reached full strength last June, according to U.S. military data and analysis.

AP - The Pentagon's ability to reduce troop levels in iraq will hinge on how well the Iraqis handle violent outbreaks like the recent operations in Basra, and how many U.S. troops are needed to assist them, the Pentagon's top military officer said Wednesday.

Think you're being gouged by Big Oil? U.S. troops in iraq are paying almost as much as Americans back home, despite burning fuel at staggering rates in a war.

The U.S. military has too many troops tied down in iraq to send needed reinforcements to Afghanistan this year, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs said Wednesday.

Iraqi soldiers rolled through a Shiite militia stronghold in Basra on Wednesday, drawing scattered bombs and bullets that narrowly missed the commander of government troops in the city.

An Iraqi commander leads a convoy through the stronghold of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr in Basra.

Gunmen kill four people, believed to be members of a US-allied Sunni militia, at a fake checkpoint in iraq.

NewsFactor - What do the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and video-game giant Sega have in common? The answer is that both exposed sensitive data via their File Transfer Protocol (FTP) sites. While the impact on Sega was only to force the company to release information on a new game earlier than it wanted to, in the former case it could have cost the lives of soldiers in iraq.

Iraq is looking at a potential boon in oil revenue this year, as the U.S. spends some $153 million a month in the country on fuel alone. But U.S. officials say it will take some time before Baghdad builds the capacity to manage the revenue. The money isn't '...

BAGHDAD, Apr 2 (IPS) - Despite the huge media campaign led by U.S. officials and a complicit corporate-controlled media to convince the world of U.S. success in iraq, emerging facts on the ground show massive failure.