That, too, would break with the pattern set last fall, when American troops concentrated on known Sunni insurgent strongholds, especially Dora, in southwest Baghdad.

Separately, two American soldiers were killed by roadside bombs, one in southwest Baghdad and another south of the city.

Then she met with soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division in southwest Baghdad.

A modern landfill, built to international environmental standards, is planned for southwest Baghdad, with the capacity to handle 2,230 cubic meters of waste per day.

An Iraqi policeman was shot dead in southwest Baghdad, and two bodies and a human head were discovered in three neighborhoods.

A roadside bomb killed five Iraqi policemen and wounded two others at a checkpoint in a mixed neighborhood in southwest Baghdad.

At 11:40 p.m., another soldier was killed and two were wounded when a roadside bomb went off in southwest Baghdad.

Two civilians were killed and two wounded by a sniper in southwest Baghdad.

Eleven bodies were found in southwest Baghdad on Monday, most shot but two beheaded.

In other violence on Thursday, eight police officers were killed in an ambush in southwest Baghdad.