To Recapture a City

摘要

Gen. George casey, the senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, convenes a battlefield conference in a Baghdad street. Maps are flapping in the rotor wash from the helicopter that has just set him down in Adhamiya—a place that has been known for years as the worst neighborhood in Baghdad. American officers gather around the general, together with their U.S.-trained Iraqi counterparts. They all speak the same language now. "Some of the bad guys left and are trying to infiltrate again," says Brig. Gen. Imad Ismail, Iraq's top police commander, poking the map as he speaks. "We're patrolling 24/7 here, and here."