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...AUDIO: You only have to take one look at the Iraqi forces' recent record to know why nobody really believes the new U.S. claim that they will be able to take charge of the country's security in 12 to 18 months. TIME's Bobby Ghosh reports from Baghdad...
...Second Lt. Graham Ward, who was conducting house-to-house searches in western Baghdad in the days before the kidnapping, said: "They tie our hands behind our backs and expect us to climb monkey bars...
...Associated Press reported that a U.S. military official in Washington said the missing soldier was an Army translator of Iraqi descent who may have ventured into Baghdad to visit family when he was taken. So far, the house-to-house search has centered on Baghdad's central Karradah district, which U.S. and Iraqi security forces have sealed...
...Karrada, the downtown Baghdad neighborhood where the search for the missing American soldier has been concentrated, the lockdown imposed by U.S. and Iraqi forces since Monday night could not have come at a worse time. What should have been a day of joyous celebration has instead turned into a time of high anxiety as American troops conduct house-to-house searches. The shops and businesses that line the neighborhood's two main roads, known as "Karrada In" and "Karrada Out," are shut on what should have been their busiest day of the year...
...first day after Ramadan is the festival of Eid, a day of feasting, shopping for new clothes and giving gifts - and many residents of Baghdad would normally have made a beeline for Karrada's shops, where they can buy everything from large-screen TVs and air conditioners to garments and sweets. In anticipation of a spike in demand, many shopkeepers had doubled their inventory. But because the neighborhood has been shut off by U.S. and Iraqi forces, shoppers are taking their business elsewhere, much to the chagrin of Karrada's business community. "In a good year, as much...