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Destroying the Village

Leila Fadel reports on the latest success of the surge: “Iraqi security forces, after more than of 40 days of intense fighting, on Thursday told residents to evacuate their homes in the northeast Shiite slum of Sadr City and to move to temporary shelters on two soccer fields.”

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