In forgotten corner of Iraq, Marines face daily danger
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QAIM, Iraq -- Word spread fast. It was Gunny. And the young kid, Nice. The news was passed in low voices, quiet conversations. No one wanted to say it loudly. The Marines heard it and looked away. They squinted at the heavy sun, kicked their boots in the dust. Their faces hardened. They spat their dip and shifted the guns ...
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. Marines thousands of  miles from home in Iraq face ruthless insurgents, a  debilitating desert climate and tasteless food. But they dread  nothing more than opening the Dear John letter.
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SAMARI, Niger  - U.S. marines have trained an  elite force in the West African country of Niger to root out  and kill al Qaeda-linked militants Washington fears may be  roaming ungoverned swathes of the Sahara desert.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. marines prepared on  Friday to mount a "decisive" assault on the Iraqi cities of  Falluja and Ramadi to crush Sunni Muslim insurgents and Arab  militants.
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WASHINGTON -- The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western al Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the US military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said several military officers and intelligence officials familiar with ...
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An Iraqi National Guardsmen patrols outside his headquarters in Mushahidah, Iraq, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Baghdad, Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 after a mortar attack.
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - Nine Marines killed in Iraq Saturday, eight of them in a car-bombing near Fallujah. That&#39;s the heaviest toll on American fighters in about six months.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. Marines backed by air  strikes fought their way through an insurgent stronghold in  Falluja on Wednesday, but have yet to quell resistance in  Iraq's most rebellious city, Marines said.
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Marines in Fallujah with loved ones back home in California find that the dangers have been reversed
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American soldiers venture out of their bases into dangerous streets, confronting myriad of  unseen risks.
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Sunday was the deadliest day in more than a month for US Marines in Iraq. Eight Marines died in fighting in Anbar province. The military says seven were killed while conducting &quot;security
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A night with the marines in Falluja offers a textbook illustration of the complexities of urban warfare.
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As Iraqis prepare for a democratic vote, the U.S. is still struggling to prevent insurgents from destroying it
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FURAT, Iraq -- With a biker's bandan a 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 heartland of the powerful Albu Nimr tribe.
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The US military says it responded to enemy fire on the edge of Fallujah, Iraq. A Marine spokesman says troops had been taking sporadic fire and countered with tanks and artillery.
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Some streets are bullet-riddled and abandoned danger zones â the boundaries between Sunni and Shiite areas.
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MAHMOUDIAH, Iraq -- This bloody and lawless region south of Baghdad illustrates the destabilizing results of a hands-off approach to Iraqi trouble spots.