Sources: Bush plan for Iraq security control by November; Maliki pledges to 'neutralize' Sadr

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's new plan for the war in Iraq calls for all provinces to be under Iraqi operational control by November and for 4,000 additional U.S. troops to be sent to Baghdad and Anbar province by the end of January, a U.S. official says.

The plan calls for a total of 20,000 additional U.S. troops in an effort to restore order and bolster the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the source said.

Some of those troops are already awaiting orders in Kuwait, CNN's Suzanne Malveaux reported. The 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division would be the first new troops deployed in Iraq under the plan, The Associated Press reported.

The official cautioned that the November date for Iraq control does not mean U.S. troops would withdraw by then.

Most of the additional troops will be deployed in Baghdad, the official told CNN.

The official also said that al-Maliki had promised Bush that he would redeploy a large number of Iraqi troops from other parts of the country to help secure Baghdad, and that those troops' main goal would be to neutralize Shiite militias loyal to influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Al-Maliki has been reluctant to move against the militias until now because al-Sadr's political support has been crucial to al-Maliki's rise to power and continuation in office.

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