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LOU DOBBS: Tonight, Michael Ware reports from Baghdad
on the fighting in Iraq.
Jamie McIntyre reports from the Pentagon on the
rising number of casualties in this war.
And Ed Henry reports from the White House on the
political strategy and deadlock in the conduct of
this war.
We turn first to Michael Ware in Baghdad -- Michael.
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MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Lou, it's almost
trite to say that the war rages on here in Iraq. In
an incident in the center of the Iraqi capital,
Baghdad, today, 16 American soldiers were wounded in
this one engagement alone.
According to the U.S. military, it started at about
7:00 a.m. local time this morning during a routine
cordon and search: locking down an area, going door
to door. While American and Iraqi troops were doing
this, the insurgents opened fire. They killed four of
the Iraqi soldiers, and only three of the insurgents
were killed.
In the meantime, these 16 American soldiers were
wounded. Now, we don't know whether any of them were
critically wounded or whether they were all minor
wounds. Nonetheless, two other Iraqi soldiers were
wounded, as was an Iraqi child, according to the U.S.
military.
Now, we also see north of the capital, in Diyala
Province, al Qaeda hitting back at police recruits,
using a female suicide bomber to infiltrate the ranks
of these men joining the police service, detonating
herself and killing 10 of the recruits around her.
Meanwhile, south of the capital, Baghdad, in the
Shia-dominated town of Diwaniya, an ongoing operation
now in about its fourth day known as Operation Black
Eagle continues, with American and Iraqi security
forces targeting the Shia militia of anti-American
rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. According to Iraqi
government officials, so far 14 people have been
killed, 61 wounded. Some of them, or among them, some
militia members, say the Iraqi government.
Meanwhile, there's been about 50-odd arrests -- Lou.
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DOBBS: Michael Ware reporting from
Baghdad.