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Sadr City Handed to Iraqis
Jun 25 2009, Wa'd

Almost 10 days before the scheduled American pullout from Iraq’s urban centres, US forces on Saturday handed their base in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Sadr city to Iraqi forces, to be returned to its true owner, as called by the Commanding General of..

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In this May 13, 2008 file photo, an Iraqi Army’s soldier stay’s low while making his way across the roof top of a patrol base in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq.

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