Click to play videoDora, Southern Baghdad (Iraq): Apache helicopters overhead and hundreds of US troops on the ground are among the first steps in the Iraqi and US Government's new plan to save Baghdad.
In reality, however, it's an evolution of the old plan, operation together forward.
The first incarnation was "clear, hold and rebuild", although none of those things happened, or lasted.
Today, the stryker units lead the way on the mean streets of Dora, in the south of the Capital, doing the clearing.
The plan calls for the "holding" phase to be, for the first time, a truly combined effort: Iraqi army, National Police, Iraqi Police and US soldiers working together in a single chain of command.
“I think when we say we can't fail - it's true. We can't fail. If we can't fail, the fight's going to be in the US, the fight is going to be all over the world,” said Lieutenant Colonel Bruce Antonia.
They went into hundreds of houses, looking for weapons, insurgents and just as importantly, information.
While troops search the home of a man others accuse of being a local leader of the Mehdi Army, they find nothing. Eventually, joint security stations will be set up, among the local population, manned 24/7, designed to stop the insurgents returning when the troops leave.
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