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Baghdad attacks keep on rising, U.S. military says Neighborhood sweeps do some good in capital BY JAY PRICE MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS October 13, 2006 freep.com BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Armed attacks on U.S. soldiers and Iraqis in Baghdad have increased by 43% since midsummer, despite an ongoing U.S.-led campaign to secure individual neighborhoods, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Thursday. Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV said violence was down by 11% in neighborhoods where the sweeps had been focused. But that decline was more than offset by more attacks elsewhere, and Caldwell said the military was expecting the level of violence to keep rising during the remaining weeks of the Muslim month of Ramadan. "Historical trends tell us that the attacks will generally increase by 20% during this holy month of Ramadan," Caldwell said. "We assume it will still get worse before it gets better." In Washington, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged that training tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police hasn't curbed violence and that senior military commanders were puzzled. "We do need to take a look" at other factors that might be driving violence, he said. Pace said a berm designed to encircle Baghdad and restrict the movement of death squad members and insurgents in and out of the city was completed recently and Iraqis now staff 28 checkpoints that control entrances to the city. But he said death squads continued to operate in the capital after dark, even in neighborhoods that U.S. and Iraqi forces had swept. He said he saw no way for U.S. troops to stop that violence until Iraqis get tired of the slaughter. "You cannot have enough men under arms 24-7 to stop the hatred killings," he said. At least 40 U.S. troops have been killed in combat so far this month, according to iCasualties.org, a Web site that tracks the numbers of dead and wounded coalition troops in Iraq. Copyright © 2006 Detroit Free Press Inc.