GROUNDHOG DAY

Iraqi Leader Unveils New Security Plan Amid Rising Violence

--New York Times today

The embattled Iraqi government is launching a new security plan for Baghdad, involving thousands of US and Iraqi troops, as it struggles to contain escalating sectarian violence....

--Financial Times, July 24, 2006

Iraq implements new security plan

--BBC, June 14, 2006

Iraq's new security plan: Possible effects

--USA Today On Deadline blog, May 11, 2006

Iraqi PM announces new security plan

Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari announced a security plan building on the progress his country has already made....

--Portal Iraq, Aug. 6, 2005

According to CNN, Iraqi officials announced Wednesday a new security plan that will increase detention powers and allow the prime minister to mobilize the country’s armed forces....

--Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) News Summary & Analysis, July 7, 2004

Iraq PM unveils new security plan

Iraq's security forces are being restructured to tackle the wave of violence ahead of the transfer of power on 30 June, the interim PM has said.

Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said top security officials would report to him and he announced the formation of a special force to combat insurgents....

--DeepikaGlobal.com, June 20, 2004

In the face of continued attacks against Iraq's electric distribution infrastructure, the ministry of electricity has launched a new security plan that draws on Iraqi tribes to help secure the nation's grid....

--Iraq Today, Dec. 15, 2003

... Ahmad Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress and one of the participants in today's meeting..., said the new security plan had been completed. It was expected that it would be presented to senior Bush administration officials in coming days....

--New York Times, Sept. 19, 2003

Rumsfeld flew in[to] Baghdad on Thursday on a previously unannounced visit to discuss with his top military brass a new security plan which is aimed at cutting US losses by enlisting multinational peacekeepers to Iraq without abandoning US overall control.

--People's Daily (China), Sept. 6, 2003