Attacks on U.S. troops 'will get much worse'

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It calls to mind a wagon train rumbling through hostile territory; armed men riding shotgun up top squint into an angry sun, seeing a potential enemy in every approaching figure, behind every patch of scrub.

The U.S. Army machinegunners swivelling their sights onto passing cars on Iraq's busy Highway 1 through Sunni heartlands north of Baghdad have reason to be nervous.

Three months into an edgy sort of peace declared by their president on May 1, 51 American soldiers ha-ve been killed, their slow-moving convoys and isolated guardposts making soft targets for shadowy enemies able to strike at will with vast stocks of secreted Iraqi military hardware and homemade bombs.

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