Iraqi Violence Continues

Unabated.

Bombings and shootings killed more than 70 people in Iraq on Tuesday in a surge of bloodshed as U.S. forces prepare to take back Baghdad's streets from gunmen. The dead included 20 Iraqi troops, a U.S. soldier and a British soldier.

One point of note, while we are sending fresh troops into Baghdad, much of the violence is occurring outside the city.

The American soldier, who was assigned to the 1st Armored Division, died ``due to enemy action'' in Anbar province west of Baghdad, the U.S. command said. In a separate statement, the military said a U.S. soldier from the 16th Corps Support Group died the day before in a roadside bombing south of the capital.

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officials confirmed that about 45 Shiite Muslims were kidnapped over the last two weeks on the main highway to Syria and Jordan

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The deadliest attack Tuesday occurred when a roadside bomb devastated a bus packed with Iraqi soldiers near Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad.

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The British soldier was fatally wounded in a mortar barrage before dawn Tuesday on a British base in the southern city of Basra

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In the southern city of Najaf, Gov. Assad Abu Kilal said 45 people from his province had disappeared while traveling by bus

While Baghdad is in full blown anarchy, much of the rest of the nation is not much better; And the magic bullet to fix this is to move a few thousand troops from one part of Iraq, to another.

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