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New Protection For Baghdad: Trenches BAGHDAD, Sept. 15, 2006(CBS/AP) Iraqi security forces will dig trenches around Baghdad — a distance of about 60 miles — in an attempt to prevent insurgents and explosive-laden cars from infiltrating this city of 6 million, the Interior Ministry said Friday. A vehicle curfew for Friday prayers managed to curb violence in Baghdad for the day, with police reporting only two shooting deaths. But another 30 bodies of torture victims turned up in the capital — including one of a man who had been dismembered and thrown into the Tigris river. A U.S. soldier was killed when the vehicle he was traveling in was struck by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on Friday, shortly after a Marine was killed in action in Anbar province, the U.S. command said. A surge in violence has seen more than 130 people slain in Baghdad on Wednesday and Thursday — either killed in bombings or tortured and shot before being dumped on the city's streets. The U.S. military blames the surge in sectarian killings on death squads that roam parts of Baghdad. In the mixed northwest Hurriyah neighborhood, leaflets thrown on its streets Friday threatened to kill 10 Sunni Arabs for every Shiite death. "Mujahideen elements will kill 10 Sunnis if one Shiite is martyred inside or outside Hurriyah," the fliers said. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006...in2015596.shtml

Escape from Baghdad? Someone call Snake Plissken.