On troubled road, Iraqi cyclists get a little help
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An American spearheads effort to help Iraq's junior team recover from thefts of bikes and equipment.
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Four of the worldÂs best bicycle riders are pessimistic about their chances at the U.S.A. CyclingÂs national professional road-race championship due to their undermanned teams.
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Through the scattered towns and along the dangerous roads of an area that one commander described as "kind of like the worst place in the world," U.S. Marines, British soldiers and Iraqi security forces are waging an offensive they say is vastly different from the urban warfare waged elsewhere in Iraq in recent weeks.
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AL-FURAT, Iraq -- With a biker's bandanna tied under his helmet, the Special Forces team sergeant gunned a Humvee down a desert road in Iraq's volatile Anbar province. Skirting the restive town of Hit, the team of a dozen soldiers crossed the Euphrates River into an oasis of relative calm: the rural...
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American fortunes in Iraq are ever more dependent on feuding Iraqis who seem, at times, almost heedless to American appeals.
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An eyewitness account of the vicious battle to retake the  Iraqi city
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Relief trucks are heading towards the war-torn Iraqi city of Falluja - but they do not have permission to enter.
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The Iraqi Red Crescent Society sounded an alarm over what they described as a humanitarian crisis in the Iraqi town of Fallujah after days of fierce street battles between US-led forces and Iraqi fighters.
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Motorists give greater leeway to   cyclists who do not wear safety helmets, according to a study   by a academic in Britain who was hit by traffic twice as he   rode his bike to carry out his research.
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To listen to Iraq's new police officers is to hear the voices of under-equipped and under-trained men, often unnerved by the danger but determined to work.
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The Red Cross says it has serious concerns about the plight of civilians in the Iraqi city of Falluja.
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The Iraqi fans&#39; bus ride from Athens to Kaftanzoglio Stadium took eight hours. But at least that was better than the trip to Crete last weekend to see their team play.
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The Iraqis who signed up to help the Americans are losing faithâand often their lives. One family's story.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 28 -- Twice on the road to the bombing scene Friday, carloads of young Iraqi men sped by in the opposite direction. The jubilant wedding revelers leaned out of their windows gesturing wildly as they drove through the streets.
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A group of Iraqis in brown-and-tan camouflage uniforms huddled around an American officer yesterday as he gave them orders for setting up a checkpoint along a dangerous stretch of highway on the outskirts of Mosul.
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People are reflect in a motorbike&#39;s rearview mirror during prayer in Baghdad&#39;s Shiite enclave of Sadr City Friday, Dec. 24, 2004.
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As the violence rages in Iraq, a small stream of Iraqis is trickling into the United States despite improbable odds.