US, Iraqi forces prepare to take back Ramadi

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Mon Jun-19-06 12:16 AM
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US, Iraqi forces prepare to take back Ramadi

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150355515976&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Thousands of US and Iraqi troops set up outposts Sunday in southern parts of Ramadi as part of an operation to establish Iraqi army bases in the country's largest Sunni Arab city and begin wresting it away from months of insurgent control. snip

Large swathes of Ramadi have been in insurgent control for months. Powerful roadside bombings and running gunbattles in the street take place everyday, confining US patrols to small sections of the city. Prominent tribal leaders who have cooperated with US forces have been assassinated or forced to flee outside the country.

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TahitiNut

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Mon Jun-19-06 12:37 AM
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1. Again? What's this, the sixth time?

:eyes:

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Mayberry Machiavelli

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Mon Jun-19-06 12:39 AM
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2. Do these news reports ever mention that we've been around this block more

than once?

Or are we ALREADY living in an Orwellian eternal present, with no reference of fixed history or past except what is told to us that moment on TV?

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