BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday declared a revised security plan for Baghdad aimed at curbing the raging insurgent and sectarian violence in the Iraqi capital.
Maliki said the plan will offer more muscle to Iraqi forces who will be backed by US troops, but offered few details.
"The security plan will not protect any outlaws regardless of their sectarian or political affiliations," the prime minister said in a speech marking the 86th anniversary of Iraqi army.
"We will hold accountable all those who neglect orders or work on political and sectarian basis."
The new plan will rely on Iraqi "armed forces to forcefully implement the plan and the coalition forces will support our forces," Maliki said.
"Local military commanders will be given all powers to execute the plan in the sector he supervises," Maliki said, suggesting that the commander need not await a decision from higher authorities to take an immediate action.
"The plan will be in force until all missions are complete in a way that promotes security and provide services to people," he added.
A massive security plan, Operation Together Forward, has been in place since June 2006 in Baghdad to secure the capital which is the epicentre of Iraq's insurgent and sectarian violence.
But despite the plan more than 100 people are killed daily in Baghdad, according to the United Nations.
