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Baghdad Nears End as U S Forces Expand Role in Iraq
At Emory University historian Gordon Newby laments the loss of past understanding as Iraqi distrust grows amid looting of government offices and schools. US officials deploy 1200 police and judiciary personnel to bolster troops while Iraqi police join Marines on joint patrols. A Marine patrol near Tikrit advances. In Baghdad a cache of 310 death bomb vests is found at an elementary school. A Marine is killed at a checkpoint outside a medical facility as fighting erupts near the Palestine Hotel on the Tigris.
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Emory University
Atlanta
Gordon Newby
Mohammed Zaki
Jeremy Stafford
Baghdad
Al-Saadi
Germany
IDF Television Net
Saddam
Tikrit
1St Marine Expeditionary Force
U.S. Central Command
Central Command
Palestine