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US offensive in Iraq

Bagdad, Iraq - 50 aircraft, 1,500 soldiers and 200 tactical vehicles on the camp

Yesterday the US Command in Iraq launched the biggest offensive by the end of the war on April 2003. The battle is in progress in Samarra’s zone, 100 km North from Iraqi capital, and sees the engagement of 50 aircraft, 1,500 American and Iraqi soldiers and 200 tactical vehicles. The operation, code name "Operation Swarmer", should go on for several days and has as goal the weapons’ storage of Iraqi gue...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 137727
Rome, Italy, 03/17/2006 14:19
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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