Reports: U.S. Forces Have Encircled Baghdad

A day after U.S. ground forces began operating in Baghdad, coalition troops are close to controlling all roads to the Iraqi capital city, Reuters reported Sunday, citing a U.S. commander.

The report stated that only one main road, in the northern part of the city, hadn't yet been secured. "We're just about there," Col. Will Grimsley, commander of the 1st Brigade of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, told a Reuters correspondent who asked if the coalition controlled all access to Baghdad.

"Look at it from this point of view -- 1st Brigade holds the airport and the west of Baghdad, the 2nd Brigade is securing the south, the 3rd Brigade is holding the northwest and the Marines are in the northeast," Reuters quoted Grimsley as saying. ...