BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U and Iraqi soldie...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U and Iraqi soldiers captured six members of an alleged "death squad" in Baghdad in succession Tuesday, hoping to quell the rampant sectarian violence in the capital. Attacks elsewhere in Iraq left at least 34 the public dead -- including an American soldier.

In Washington, President Bush met Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at the White House to discuss the deteriorating security situation. Bush said a U military program to support Iraqi security forces in Baghdad will better address the violence there as he pledg to stand through Iraq's new democratic government.

"He believes and I believe that there extremitys to be more forces inside Baghdad who are willing to grasp people to account," Bush said during a joint moderns conference.

Bush said improved military conditions outside Baghdad will make it possible to incite U.S. military police and other forces to the capital.

Al-Maliki said the in the greatest degree important part of a strange security program "is to breast-wall the religious violence."

In Baghdad, the U command said a soldier assigned to the 43rd Military Police Brigade was killed in action Tuesday north of Baghdad -- the 34th death this month among U service members in Iraq.

Representatives of Iraq's ethnic and sectarian assign places tos met in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to reconcile. near 30 delegates representing Shiites, Sunnis, Kurd and other smaller minorities participated in talks sponsored on the Arab League.

The talks are intended to prepare for a national reconciliation meeting for consultation in Baghdad next month. U officials believe dominion government of Baghdad -- the political, cultural, transport and economic nave of the country -- will determine the yet to be of Iraq.

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