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From: ig	6/13/2006 6:53:08 AM
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BAGHDAD (CNN) -- In a massive effort to bring security to the Iraqi capital, at least 70,000 coalition forces -- most of them Iraqi -- will be deployed on the streets of Baghdad Wednesday morning, according to the Iraqi Interior Ministry. The troops will be made up of Iraqi police, police commandoes, soldiers and emergency police, as well as coalition forces, the office said. Beginning at 6 a.m. Wednesday (10 p.m. Tuesday ET), the troops will enforce checkpoints on Baghdad's roads, as well as a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. The forces will also wear new uniforms to distinguish them from insurgents donning fake uniforms and carrying out attacks. Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has vowed to deploy Iraqi forces to end the spike in violence and sectarian strife in Baghdad in recent months. It will be the largest operation in Baghdad since the United States handed over sovereignty to Iraq in June 2004, according to Maj. Gen. Mahdi al-Gharrawi, the commander of public order forces under the Interior Ministry. -- From CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq and John Vause (Posted 6:31 a.m.) cnn.com --- I don't see this anywhere else yet...

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