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U.S. troops arrive at the site of a bomb blast in
Baghdad's Camp Sara, a mainly Christian neighbor-
hood, on Wednesday.
War heading to
decisive moment
in Baghdad
Former Pentagon analyst: Securing
city won't mean victory, but losing
could mean all-out civil war
BAGHDAD (AP) - The Iraq war could be heading
to its decisive moment: a battle for the capital of Bagh-
dad that already has turned dramatically bloodier for
American soldiers and carries enormous stakes for the
country's future.
At least 13 American soldiers have been killed
around Baghdad since Monday - the highest four-
day U.S. toll in the capital since the 2003 inva-
sion.
That count is likely to rise higher as the U.S.-led
forces step up their campaign to root out the extrem-
ist militias, death squads and terrorist cells that have
turned the city into a collection of armed, ethnically
divided camps.
No longer a limited security problem while the main
war was being fought out west in Anbar province, the
battle of Baghdad is turning out to be "a critical point
in the Iraq war, says former Pentagon analyst Antho-
ny Cordesman.
"Securing Baghdad ... won't win. But losing Bagh-
dad will lose," Cordesman says. "If they lose, Iraq is
likely to slip into a major civil war."
Much of Baghdad is yet to be targeted in the joint
U.S.-Iraqi pacification operation.
Top commanders - signaling the toughest fight
is yet to come - say they need six more Iraqi bat-
talions, or 3,000 soldiers, to join the 30,000 Iraqi
security forces and 15,000 Americans already in
the city.
U.S. commanders have defined victory as reducing
violence in the capital to the point where Iraqi civil-
ian police could handle security. With order restored
in the capital, the Iraqi government then could focus
on providing security and basic services to the rest of
the country - thus creating conditions for U.S. troops
to leave.
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEQUA, South Korea _ e
North Korea warned against nuclear test
The president of South Korea reportedly ordered his government to send a "grave
warning" to North Korea about the consequences of a nuclear test, and Russia said
it was trying to dissuade Pyongyang from conducting it.
Amid the rising tensions, Japan's Kyodo News agency said a U.S. military plane
capable of detecting radiation took off from southern Japan, believed to be part of
U.S. efforts to monitor for signs of a North Korean test.
North Korea threatened Tuesday to conduct a nuclear test to prove it is a nuclear
power. Pyongyang claims it has nuclear weapons and needs them to deter a U.S.
attack, but hasn't performed any known test to verify that.
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun huddled in Seoul with his top security
adviser and ordered his government to send the "grave warning" to North Korea
about the consequences of a test, Yonhap news agency reported.
WASHINGTON
House opens page sex scandal investigation
The House ethics committee opened an expansive investigation into the
unfolding page sex scandal yesterday, approving nearly four dozen subpoenas
for witnesses and documents as House Speaker Dennis Hastert held his ground
against pressure to resign.
"I'm deeply sorry this has happened and the bottom line is we're taking respon-
sibility,' Hastert (R-Ill.) told at a news conference outside his district office.
"Ultimately, the buck stops here," the speaker said of the controversy enveloping
the House, former Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida and the page program, a
venerable institution almost as old as the Congress itself.
Hastert's handling of the issue has come under harsh criticism by some fellow Repub-
licans and conservative activists at a time when the GOP is worried about holding onto
its congressional majority power in the fast-approaching midterm elections.
UNITED NATIONS
Security Council to discuss Iran sanctions
The U.N. Security Council will start discussing a resolution next week that
would impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment,
Britain's U.N. ambassador said yesterday.
The council's decision to take up a sanctions resolution follows lengthy nego-
tiations between European and Iranian negotiators that failed to convince Tehran
to suspend its enrichment program during negotiations on its nuclear program.
"I expect the Iranian dossier to re-emerge in New York in the course of next
week, Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry said.
Britain "will be discussing with its partners and with members of the council
the basis for action by the council to adopt measures under Article 41 against
Iran," he said.
SANTA ROSA, Calif.
Judge dismisses porn charges against Karr
A judge dismissed child pornography charges Thursday against former JonBenet
Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr after prosecutors said they didn't have enough
evidence to take the case to trial.
Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Rene Chouteau ordered Karr released immedi-
ately, bringing an end to his two-month odyssey in the U.S. criminal justice system after
he was extradited from Thailand on suspicion of killing the 6-year-oldbeauty queen.
Karr, 41, was returned to California last month to face the five-year-old por-
nography case after DNA evidence cleared him of killing the girl in her Boulder,
Colo., home in 1996.
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