Vowing to take back Baghdad's mean streets, Iraq government said Thursday it would deploy 40,000 police and soldiers in the capital to hunt down insurgents and clamp a gauntlet of steel around the city. The interior minister, meanwhile, said his office believes militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was wounded, while an Internet statement claimed that Iraq's most feared terrorist group had appointed a deputy to fill in for the Jordanian.





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