WH has its own interpretation of 'redeployment' and it is not Murtha's

[rodeodance]

interpretation.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060916/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_060916121959

.....In a bid to rein in the violence, which has raged alongside persistent anti-US attacks by Sunni Arab insurgents, the Unitd States military said it will divert some of the 30,000 troops in the restive Al-Anbar province to Baghdad.

"The main effort is Baghdad. And we must ensure that we weight the main effort," Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli told reporters late Friday.

Without giving the actual numbers, Chiarelli, the number two US commander in Iraq, said the shift of troops will not affect operations in Anbar, where the military faces stiff challege from Sunni rebels and terror group Al-Qaeda.

Iraqi authorities, meanwhile, are planning to dig trenches around the capital to thwart the movement of rebels and death squads.

"We will surround the city with trenches," interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf told AFP on Friday.