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`Bleeding of antiquities must stop,’ expert says

U.S. authorities must tighten control of Iraq's borders to prevent a flood of looted artifacts from being smuggled out, researchers said Tuesday at a meeting of international antiquities experts. Donny...
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Size of Iraqi arms caches stuns Army

The evidence of the last failed stand of Saddam Hussein's regime lies in seven open trailers stuck in the mud at the Mother of All Battles high school for girls....
Patients rest at the Al Rashad Mental Hospital in Baghdad. The hospital was looted, four women were raped, and 800 patients escaped after American forces broke through one of the walls trying to get to military facilities nearby.

Mentally ill `have no place to go’

When looters sacked Al Rashad Psychiatric Hospital, they stole drugs, medical equipment, air conditioners, kitchen supplies, food, fans, mattresses, even the toilets and sinks. Then the thieves committed one last...
"I think war should not be entered into lightly... We can't go all over the world fighting bad guys who might do something." -- His mother, Fran Johns

A Marine becomes a warrior

Marine Sgt. Robert Sarra's journey is charted in black marker on the red and white stripes of an American flag. He traveled from Kuwait to Baghdad, from the desert to...
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Joint patrols try to quell disorder

This is rough justice, Baghdad style. At an old police academy where local cops back on the beat mixed with Marines, an alleged looter begged for mercy as he tried...
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`Phantom’ of Hussein haunts many residents

A day after a jubilant crowd helped pull down a Saddam Hussein statue in a symbolic end to his regime, Baghdad residents woke up in a more somber mood Thursday,...
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Civil unrest keeping relief effort on hold

The looting has abated and this city's deep-water port is open, but youngsters still beg for water from passing military convoys and the threat of civil strife throughout Iraq is...
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U.S. force rings Baghdad

U.S. forces made a second incursion through Baghdad on Sunday after they had seized all major roads in and out of the city and began landing supplies at Baghdad's airport....
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Pentagon fears some Guard units slipped away

Despite the pounding inflicted on Iraq's Republican Guard divisions, U.S. military commanders warned Wednesday that small groups of Guard troops may have escaped U.S. assaults and slipped away--and that those...
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POW facility draws flocks of civilians

Something curious occurred at the first allied POW camp in Iraq: Surrendering prisoners started turning up at the front gate even before the remote facility formally opened. There was something...