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Increase troops baghdad { May 18 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.charleston.net/stories/051803/ter_18security.shtml http://www.charleston.net/stories/051803/ter_18security.shtml Story last updated at 7:19 a.m. Sunday, May 18, 2003 U.S. increases troops in Baghdad to help restore security BY DAFNA LINZER Associated Press BAGHDAD, IRAQ--Senior U.S. military officials acknowledged Saturday they have encountered unexpected obstacles to restoring security in Baghdad, including the dilemma of who should be in custody and who shouldn't. Six weeks after the fall of Baghdad, the city of 5 million remains a dangerous place where looters and criminal gangs roam freely. The military says it is pushing to change that. Maj. Gen. William Webster, a senior U.S. commander in Iraq, said security would be helped by the recent arrival of additional American troops, increasing the overall military presence in the capital to 25,000 -- up from 16,000 several weeks ago. In addition, military police have doubled the number of night patrols and are being aided, in part, by a contingent of newly returned Iraqi police officers. But Webster said military planners were caught off guard by how the war caused the disintegration of Iraqi military and police forces. "We did not expect the entire armed forces to leave their equipment ... and put on civilian clothes when we conducted our initial planning," he said. "We did not expect all the police forces to go home and stay home." Restoring law and order is crucial for U.S. military's efforts to win the trust and confidence of the Iraqi people, many of them deeply suspicious of the occupying forces after years of oppression under Saddam Hussein. He also suggested, as other American officials, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have in recent days, that some of Baghdad's crime was caused by Saddam's decision to empty many of the country's jails and issue mass pardons before the war. U.S. legal experts are investigating whether those pardoned can be arrested again if they can be located. Meanwhile, Gen. Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti, a cousin of Sad dam whose brother is married to the deposed leader's youngest daughter, Hala, gave himself up Saturday morning, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. Mustafa spent most of his career in the Republican Guard.

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