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| | USATODAY.com - Rumsfeld visits Iraqi mass grave, execution chamber |
 | | They were the unidentified among more than 3,000 massacre victims unearthed in Al Hillah, a 1,000-year-old city near the site of ancient Babylon, shortly after American forces moved through last spring on the way to Baghdad. | | | So far, U.S. military investigators have collected preliminary evidence at the sites near Al Hillah and some others for possible use in future trials, she said. | | | Hasty and haphazard searches could destroy evidence that could be used in criminal prosecution of those responsible. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-09-06-rumsfeld-iraq_x.htm
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| | Hillah on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Group purporting to be al-Qaida in Iraq claims responsibility for Hillah attack | | | While Mr Blair talks of victory in Iraq, the troops are afraid to go out at night; `Saddam was a shame upon Iraq,' one man told me as we stood beside 400 skulls in a hall at Hillah. | | | Power struggle in Hillah underscores delicacy of Iraq's political transformation |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/X/X-H1illah.asp
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| | A Crisis of Faith in the City of Hope |
| | The reason why Charles Garner and Lynndie England ever made it to Iraq and even had the opportunity to further compound the misery of the people of Al Hillah is precisely because for years society chose not to hold them accountable for their actions. | | | 1 In 2003, Lynndie England was sent to Iraq, to Al Hillah, to Abu Ghraib. | | | Colleen Kesner, a resident from England's hometown, said: "A lot of people here think they ought to just blow up the whole of Iraq. |
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http://www.churchworldservice.org/news/archives/2004/07/204.html
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| | Spirit of America |
| | Al Burghard emailed Spirit of America requesting dental supplies for the people of Al Hillah, Iraq. | | | The kits included an insert with images of the American and Iraqi flags, photographs of American men, women and children and the greeting "A gift of friendship from the people of the United States to the people of Iraq." Federal Express donated express shipping of the kits to the Marines. | | | More photos provided by the Marines who distributed dental kits as gifts to the people of Al Hillah, Iraq. |
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http://www.spiritofamerica.net/site/success/success_dental
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| | Preparing for Iraqi Elections: Poll Trainees in Al Hillah |
| | Al Hillah, Iraq, Jan. 16, 2005: Poll trainees at the Al Hillah Human Rights Association prepare for the January 30, 2005 Iraqi elections. | | | External links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views or privacy policies contained therein. | | | Preparing for Iraqi Elections: Poll Trainees in Al Hillah |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix/b/nea/iraq/41286.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - Recruits, insurgents in faceoff |
| | Iraq's leading fugitive, terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, purportedly claimed responsibility for the Hillah attack and at least one of the Baghdad bombings in an Internet declaration. | | | Contributing: Mohammed Hayder Sabaq in Hillah, Iraq &; Troops' deaths down, 1A | | | BAGHDAD &; The insurgent campaign against Iraqi security forces claimed 14 more lives in two bombings Wednesday in what has become a battle of wills between recruits lining up to defend their country and attackers who oppose the country's democratic direction. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-03-02-recruits_x.htm
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| | Mass graves an example of Iraqi treatment from Saddam |
| | Among scattered human skeletal remains near Al-Hillah, Iraq, May 5, 1st Lt. Al Eskalis, interpreter with I Marine Expeditionary Force, listens to stories of how cruel and inhumane Saddamís former regime treated them. | | | United States Marines with 1st Battalion, 4th Marines found the site but are quick to point out that its existence was no secret. | | | Al Hillah, Iraq - Decaying human bones and tattered clothes littered a dirt pit that was once used as a trash dump near the town of Al-Hillah. |
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http://www.dcmilitary.com/marines/hendersonhall/8_19/national_news/23194-1.html
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| | Iraqi Media Network - Southern Region |
| | Lions is the third in a series of disruption operations that aimed to capture or kill al Qaeda in Iraq terrorists in the Ramadi area and deny them the ability to influence the Iraqi people there. | | | Price of Iran electricity exported to Iraq will rise | | | CAMP BLUE DIAMOND, AR RAMADI, Iraq – The people of al Anbar Province were reconnected to their country’s capital and the rest of the world today as telecommunication services were restored to the region. |
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http://www.imnsr.com/defaulten.aspx
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| | Marine Corps News -> Human rights on display in Al Hillah |
| | "[The program] gives the public of Al Hillah a voice where they never had one," Concon said. | | | Now if a citizen of Al Hillah contests a government action that is viewed as violation of their rights, the Human Rights Association will provide them an attorney free of charge. | | | AL HILLAH, Iraq (July 26, 2003) -- In mid-April, when Saddam Hussein's regime began crumbling, 12 lawyers began work on a plan to show residents that human beings and human rights can co-exist. |
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http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/2003729812
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| | DefendAmerica News - Article |
| | "This is the safest city in Iraq," said Hayder Shubbar, an Al Hillah resident, as he expelled tobacco smoke into the cool evening air. | | | AL HILLAH, Iraq(June 12, 2003) -- As night casts its shadow on the southern city of Al Hillah June 12, it's apparent that the town is every bit as rich in culture and activity as the fabled empire of Babylon on which it was built. | | | But after the conclusion of the month-long conflict and the subsequent unrest, it was time for Al Hillah's businessmen to get back to work. |
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http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/june2003/a061803d.html
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| | Al-Hillah Mass Graves -- Transcript |
| | Even in death, those who were silenced and perished under Saddam Hussein still speak of his crimes against humanity. | | | In al Hillah, relatives who no longer feared retaliation from Saddam’s regime exhumed thousands of bodies before the coalition was able to control excavation. | | | The teams look for evidence of crimes committed and talk to witness and survivors, such as this man whose arms took several gun shots, saving him but not his brothers who died beside him. |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/obs/vid/23177.htm
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| | Planet: Al Hillah |
| | FRR people living on planets with Azami population have formed a passive resistance to the virus strain. | | | Al Hillah also hosts a small number of the seclusive Azami people, as they keep for the most part to themselves and as they have been a part of the culture of this planet for a long time they are an accepted part of the cultural tapestry of this planet. | | | The planet itself has quite a large variety of climates, but for the most part it is a very hot planet. |
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http://users.tkk.fi/~pbuchert/frr/Al_Hillah.html
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| | Spirit of America |
| | "Al is a wonderful officer and Marine and American," Jakucs said. | | | Al Burghard who served in Iraq last spring and summer (2003) and is back in Iraq now with the 1st Marine Division. | | | Retired Marine Col. Bob Jakucs, formerly of Linden, has been in the same unit with Burghard for 13 years and was director of the HACC when Burghard was deputy director. |
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http://www.spiritofamerica.net/site/blog/168
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| | OpinionJournal - FROM THE FRONT |
| | Bush for freeing us of Saddam" and tell me, "We are very grateful, because you have freed us of our worst nightmare, Saddam Hussein." (A lot of Iraqis speak surprisingly good English because most studied it in primary and secondary school.) | | | Most Iraqis, by contrast, were brutally oppressed by Saddam. | | | As my experience in Al Hillah shows, most ordinary Iraqis are in no way disillusioned with the U.S. What they want--and need--is greater help. |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110003883
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| | Al Hillah, Iraq, Pictures |
| | World : Middle East : Iraq : Al Hillah city > | | | Al Hillah, city in central Iraq, capital of Al Hillah Province. | | | The name is also spelled Hillah or Hilla. |
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http://www.greatestcities.com/Middle_East/Iraq/Al_Hillah_city.html
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| | Al Hillah |
| | Question.com > Encyclopedia > Places > Asia > Iraq Political Geography > Al Hillah | | | Browse: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Help |
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http://www.question.com/link/AlHillah.html
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| | CNN.com - Transcripts |
| | There has been infantry -- excuse me -- artillery pouring out for hours and hours. | | | What we're seeing is a situation out here now where the Iraqi army with its Republican Guard leaders have taken up positions of sanctuary inside cities like Al Hillah and the city which we can't identify, the one we're close to. | | | As I say, for hours there have been artillery exchanges there. |
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http://www-cgi.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/31/se.12.html
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| | Husband in Al Hillah |
| | Two British Muslims killed in ambush while returning from Iraq... | | | I can asure you that there are phones in Al Hillah that he will be able to contact you at. | | | Post a comment to 'Husband in Al Hillah' |
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http://www.redtailcanyon.com/items/32304.aspx
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| | UNAMI: Iraqi Media Monitoring |
| | Terror ring leader arrested, Al-Iraqiyyah TV station offices in Mosul come under rocket attack. | | | If we can secure these, we will have got to the point where all the good in the world will follow." | | | US sources say Syria must do more, one swallow does not mean spring has set in Car bomb defused near Samarra, civilian killed, two wounded in Ba'qubah. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2005/03/imm-050302-unami.htm
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| | The Iraq Page - SERVICE MEMBER KILLED IN AL HILLAH |
| | The Iraq Page - SERVICE MEMBER KILLED IN AL HILLAH | | | CENTCOM - AL HILLAH, Iraq — A U.S. service member on duty with the I Marine Expeditionary Force died after being shot on Aug 21 in Al Hillah by an unidentified gunman. | | | The service member was a passenger in a sport-utility vehicle that had been slowed by traffic congestion in a crowded area of the city. |
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http://www.pigstye.net/iraq/article.php?story=20030822075513354
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| | Iraq, Map and Flag |
| | strategic location on Shatt al Arab waterway and at the head of the Persian Gulf | | | note: Shatt al Arab is usually navigable by maritime traffic for about 130 km; channel has been dredged to 3 m and is in use; Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have navigable sections for shallow-draft boats; Shatt al Basrah canal was navigable by shallow-draft craft before closing in 1991 because of the Gulf war | | | 18 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Al Anbar, Al Basrah, Al Muthanna, Al Qadisiyah, An Najaf, Arbil, As Sulaymaniyah, At Ta'mim, Babil, Baghdad, Dahuk, Dhi Qar, Diyala, Karbala', Maysan, Ninawa, Salah ad Din, Wasit |
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http://www.greatestcities.com/Middle_East/Iraq.html
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| | Al Hillah |
| | For Shi'i Muslims, Al Hillah is venerated as the site where Caliph and Imam Ali was assassinated in 661. | | | Al Hillah lies in an area that has been most important in Iraqi and Mesopotamian history. | | | Bricks were taken from Babylon for building houses. |
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http://lexicorient.com/e.o/hillah.htm
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| | Marine Corps News -> Military, local police providing Al Hillah security |
| | Kadhen Jabar Maloh, chief of police for the Babil governance, sits in his main office in Al Hillah, Iraq June 27, 2003. | | | While he likes the patch, which was a gift from an Army civil affairs reservist who brought it from his civilian police job, it's the motto's message that Maloh is trying to bring to Iraq's new police force. | | | AL HILLAH, Iraq (June 27, 2003) -- Sitting behind his desk at the Al Hillah's main police station, where he oversees the police force for all of Babil province, Kadheen Jabar Maloh wears a Philadelphia Police Department patch bearing the motto "Honor - Integrity - Service." |
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http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/200363095617
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| | Department of Domestic Tourism |
| | The construction of Bayt al Naman is among the many achievements of the political and economic renaissance that look place in Oman under the Ya'aruba Imams (1624-1741 CE). | | | The use of a defensive trench or 'dry moat' is an ancient strategy, which has been employed in the protection of Omani cities, fortresses and castles since before the arrival of Islam. | | | Additional towers were completed in 1744 and 1906 CE. |
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http://www.mocioman.gov.om/tourism/dept_domestic_tourism.html
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| | Marine Corps News -> Mozambique team clears mines in Al Hillah |
| | AL HILLAH, Iraq (June 7, 2003) -- The devil dogs of the First Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Babylon got a hand at clearing up some hidden mines, when a special team of mine sniffing dogs and civilian mine clearing experts based out of Mozambique came to their aid. | | | Originally set up with the help of the United States State Department and the government of Mozambique, the QRDF has been getting rid of mine fields in hot spots all around the world. | | | The force was brought to Iraq and split into two teams to handle the minefields around Baghdad and Al Hillah. |
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http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/200367132630
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| | CFLCC Media Release |
| | The 1,500 people of Al Hillah in southern Iraq are celebrating after tasting clean water for the first time in years, thanks to an initiative spearheaded by Coalition troops. | | | Al Hillah was identified as a priority for help by the Iraqi-led regional water commission, which is working closely in cooperation with Coalition forces. | | | BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Coalition forces are making Iraq a better place by providing clean water to the people of Al Hillah in the south and by facilitating the construction of a road between Mosul and Rabia in the north. |
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http://www.arcent.army.mil/media_releases/2003/august/aug30_01.asp
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| | Hilla / Al Hillah |
| | On 13 March 1991 the execution of sixty civilians suspected of armed activity against government forces was carried out publicly by a firing squad in Saddam Square, the main city square of al-Hilla. | | | The force oversees the major cities of Al Basrah, An Nasiriyah, Al Kut, An Najaf, Karbala, Al Hillah, Ad Diwaniyah, Al Amarah, and As Samawa and a population of more than seven million people. | | | On 16 March 1991 at al- Mahawil Garrison near the city of al-Hilla between 150 - 170 men and boys from the Shi'a community were shot dead. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/hilla.htm
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| | Floridian: At war with one's perspectives |
| | Deep in the story, the Iraqi Information Minister reported that 56 people were killed and 268 wounded overnight, including 24 dead in Baghdad and nine children killed in Hillah. | | | The St. Petersburg Times on Wednesday carried a three-paragraph account on Page 5 of the A section in which Iraqi officials alleged that U.S. Apache helicopters were responsible for the deaths in Al-Hillah, a charge that commanders at Central Command refuted. | | | A quick search Tuesday of other media outlets found only one reference to the bombing in Al-Hillah, in a Knight Ridder Newspapers dispatch. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/03/news_pf/Floridian/At_war_with_one_s_per.shtml
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| | Hillah - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Hillah |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | Hillah: see Al Hillah Al Hillah (äl hĭl`lä), city (1987 pop. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Hillah
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| | House Armed Services Committee |
| | Improved water supplies and a new clinic were at first the top priorities for the community but they chose the school in the end since it would benefit the most people. | | | The principal of the school, about a half hour drive outside of the Iraqi city of Al Hillah, south of Baghdad, said that aid workers held a community meeting to discuss the needs of the area and the people asked for the school repairs. | | | AL HILLAH, Iraq (Sept. 25, 2003) - Basmah Hassan, 11, smiles as she shows a visitor the newly-painted classroom she'll have for the new school year beginning in a week. |
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http://armedservices.house.gov/GoodNews/9-25-03.html
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| | Navy EOD Team, Polish Security Operate in Iraq |
| | Designed to protect the historic Babylon ruins next to the Euphrates river from looters, the camp is home to a number of coalition countries supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, including Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, all under the command of the Multinational Defense force Southeast, or MND(SE). | | | The SDA will eventually be used to destroy unexploded ordnance found in the Al Hillah area. | | | “Although we’re technically in the rebuilding phase of OIF [Operation Iraqi Freedom], Iraqi civilians and property, as well as coalition troops in the region are still threatened by IEDs and other small arms attacks from insurgent groups, even down here in Al Hillah. |
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http://www.news.navy.mil/search/print.asp?story_id=10499&VIRIN=10512&imagetype=1&page=1
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| | CNN.com - Ryan Chilcote: Rooting out Fedayeen - Apr. 9, 2003 |
| | The goal is to root out Fedayeen fighters who are inside, or who the U.S. military believes are still inside Hillah. | | | CNN correspondent Ryan Chilcote, accompanying the Army 101st Airborne in the U.S.-led campaign to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, spoke with CNN anchor Bill Hemmer on Tuesday, as U.S. soldiers engaged in a fierce fight with Iraqis in al Hillah, a town about 60 miles southwest of Baghdad. | | | It looks like some agricultural warehouse, the soldiers of 101st Airborne moving into Hillah, a tactic that began at dawn. |
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http://cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/08/otsc.irq.chilcote
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| | Trying to find my husband |
| | He was moved to Al Hillah and I have no way to contact him nor he contact me. Does anyone know the postal code so I can try to expedite him a letter. | | | He is in Iraq to help in the rebuilding efforts. |
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http://www.globalcoordinate.com/items/31617.aspx
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| | Modern Babylon (Iraq) - Prophecy Central |
| | Saddam City, as it has been dubbed — or more correctly Saddamiat Al Tharthar (That Which Belongs to Saddam at Tharthar Lake) — is 85 miles west of Baghdad. | | | It is so big that it includes 625 homes for the Iraqi leader’s “favourites”, Peter Hain, the Foreign Office Minister, said yesterday. |
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http://www.bible-prophecy.com/babylonnow.htm
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| | Jihad Unspun - A Clear View On The US War On "Terrorism" |
| | A martyrdom fighter drove an explosives laden car into a column of British troops heading towards the center of the city of al-‘Amarah in southeastern Iraq yesterday, killing five of them as road side bombs seriously damaged a Polish military vehicle and killed two Polish soldiers in Hillah. | | | In a dispatch posted at 6:41pm Mecca time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before a martyrdom fighter drove an explosives laden car into a column of British troops heading towards the center of the city of al-‘Amarah in southeastern Iraq. |
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http://www.jihadunspun.com/index-side_internal.php?article=103792&list=/home.php&
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