U.S. Army soldiers prepare to load up into CH-47 Chinook helicopters as they participate in a joint air assault operation planned and led by Iraqi army and police forces in the countryside east of Baghdad, Iraq, June 26, 2009. The U.S. soldiers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team. The joint search for weapons caches and insurgent activity was one of the largest air assault operations conducted in the Multinational Division Baghdad area since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. James SelesnickIraq Restricts U.S. Forces -- Washington Post
American Officials See Link Between Limits, Spate of Attacks.
BAGHDAD, July 17 -- The Iraqi government has moved to sharply restrict the movement and activities of U.S. forces in a new reading of a six-month-old U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that has startled American commanders and raised concerns about the safety of their troops.
In a curt missive issued by the Baghdad Operations Command on July 2 -- the day after Iraqis celebrated the withdrawal of U.S. troops to bases outside city centers -- Iraq's top commanders told their U.S. counterparts to "stop all joint patrols" in Baghdad. It said U.S. resupply convoys could travel only at night and ordered the Americans to "notify us immediately of any violations of the agreement."
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