After a 12-day "spike" in violence in Iraq that has left 78 soldiers dead and 561 wounded, the Office of the Secretary of Defense is expected to announce within the next couple of days a plan to extend troop deployments, a senior Army official told reporters this morning. Lt. Gen. Richard Cody, the Army's director of operations and plans (G-3), said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the defense secretary are considering several options suggested by U.S...
