Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/embedded-reporter-describes-anti-insurgency-crackdown Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Independent Television News' Julian Maynon has been embedded with American army units in Baghdad, tracking the progress of anti-insurgency forces. He filed two reports on the situation. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JULIAN MANYON: These are some of the most dangerous streets in the world.In an American armored Humvee, we drove into the Sunni stronghold of Ghazaliya in west Baghdad. Here, any car could contain a bomb. Inside a cordon of tanks, U.S. troops were rapidly building a new combat outpost. It's part of the surge to clear and hold violent areas.This Iraqi family had just been told to leave their home to make way for the new base.The Americans have told them they must leave. WOMAN (through translator): What would you feel if you were suddenly told to get out of your house? Tell me, what would you feel? JULIAN MANYON: Nearby, fortifications were going up. American troops had cleared the houses they were taking over, and looters were hard at work.What is the reaction of the local people, because, frankly, as we turned up, they — they didn't seem terribly happy?1ST LIEUTENANT MICHAEL OBAN, 1st Cavalry Division: Well, probably not. I mean, we haven't received very much happiness from this sector the entire time we have been here. This is a place that has been really war-torn. It's got quite a bit of insurgent elements here. And the people are pretty brutalized. We find quite a bit of tortured and dead bodies here all the time.