Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/violence-prompts-planned-troop-increase-in-baghdad Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Gunmen kidnapped 26 people from the Baghdad offices of the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and a nearby company in a daylight raid Monday. A reporter discusses the U.S. military's plan to send at least 3,700 additional troops into Baghdad to stem the violence. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JEFFREY BROWN: It's been a bloody few days in Iraq: 29 people kidnapped in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood; at least 23 ambushed and killed on a road outside the capital; shootings and bombings around the country.According to an Iraqi ministry, the sectarian violence has forced some 20,000 people to flee their homes in just the last 10 days. In the meantime, the U.S. military reported the deaths of four Marines in combat in Anbar Province on Saturday.We get an update on the situation by phone from Borzou Daragahi, Baghdad bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times.Borzou, the kidnappings today in Baghdad are part of what look more and more like very brazen attacks. What's known about this one so far? BORZOU DARAGAHI, Los Angeles Times: It was just an awful incident in broad daylight. Gunmen in maybe 10 or 12 metallic-colored SUVs pulled up to a pair of office buildings in a very upscale section of Baghdad, carted off a few dozen people and left a few there, just because they couldn't fit them into the cars to take them away.They were in uniform. They had advanced weapons, according to witnesses. They were disciplined, calling each other by military title. It was quite an operation.