American and Iraqi officials, however, vowed to stay the course.

American and Iraqi officials here today said the total probably ran into the hundreds of thousands.

American and Iraqi officials have been promising for weeks to address the problem.

Iraqi officials still held to an estimate of at least 400 killed.

Iraqi officials said at the time that there 30 men in the group.

Iraqi officials hope to have power back to all residents by the end of April, he said.

Iraqi officials demanded that he leave Iraq within 72 hours.

American and Iraqi officials have said that creating such a list would take one to two years.

Government forces killed at least 32 people and arrested 39 more, Iraqi officials said.

An Iraqi military official said at least 25 security force members were killed in the battle.