数万部队开进巴格达展开安全行动、阿富汗展开大规模围剿塔利班行动

*数万部队开进巴格达展开安全行动

数万的伊拉克和美国部队部署到伊拉克首都巴格达全城，进行重大安全行动。在
坦克、装甲车和空中支援下，部队在全城设立了检查站。

伊拉克总理马利基还下令延长了戒严令以及星期五祈祷时间不许车辆行驶的禁令
。反叛分子在这段时间多次发动袭击。尽管加强了安全戒备，伊拉克警方说，巴
格达仍然发生了一起自杀式汽车炸弹事件，炸死两人，炸伤六人。

Thousands of Troops Flood Baghdad for Security Crackdown

Tens of thousands of Iraqi and U.S. troops have spread across Baghdad in
a major security crackdown in the Iraqi capital. The troops, with tanks,
armored units and air support, set up checkpoints throughout the city.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki also ordered extended curfews and a
ban on vehicle traffic during Friday prayer hours. That's a time when
insurgents have launched many attacks. Despite the increased security,
Iraqi police say a car bomb killed two people in Baghdad and wounded six
others.


*阿富汗展开大规模围剿塔利班行动

美国领导的驻阿富汗联军部队说，一场针对塔利班反叛分子发动的攻势正在阿富
汗南部进行，参加行动的军队人数达1万1千人。这次行动是联军部队自2001年推
翻塔利班政权以来发动的最大攻势。联军官员说，美国的2000多名军人以及其它
来自英国、加拿大及阿富汗的军队参加了行动。联军部队说，这次行动的目的是
对南部四省的塔利班分子藏身地进行袭击，并重创反叛分子的领导层。

美国官员说，未来几天，随着部队行动的展开，联军的袭击步伐和规模将会大幅
度加强。

Large-Scale Anti-Taleban Offensive Under Way in Afghanistan

The U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan says a large-scale
offensive is under way against Taleban insurgents in the south of the
country, involving 11-thousand troops. The offensive is the biggest of
its kind since coalition forces ousted the Taleban in 2001. Coalition
officials say the operation involves more than two-thousand U.S. troops
and soldiers from Britain, Canada and Afghanistan. They say the goal is
to attack Taleban safe havens in four southern provinces and disrupt the
insurgents' leadership.

U.S. officials say the pace and scale of coalition attacks is expected
to rise sharply in the next days.