American Troops Hand Over Control in Iraqi Cities


	American Troops Hand Over Control in Iraqi Cities

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6-30-2009 11:01 AM

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</NYT_TEXT><P>BAGHDAD — When Americans first set up a base in the Baghdad neighborhood of Ghazaliya more than two years ago, their first foot patrol lasted 20 minutes. Wading through sewage, they were shot at by snipers three times. They made it only four blocks.</p> <DIV class="inlineLeft" id="articleInline">
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<H2>Times Topics: <A href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iraq/index.html">Iraq</A></H2>
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 <P>They called the base <A title="Previous Times article on the Alamo, from 2007" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/world/middleeast/23baghdad.html">the Alamo</A>. </P><P></P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/world/middleeast/30iraq.html?hp#">This month,  as American soldiers prepared to withdraw from such outposts as part of <A title="Times article on the agreement’s approval" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/world/middleeast/17iraq.html">a security agreement</A> with the Iraqi government</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/390213D9-8BB7-497C-91D1-9C8C81C9C1EF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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