A group of British soldiers put up a tent covering after arriving at the airport in the southern Iraqi city of Basra Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. Some 600 soldiers have arrived as part of a planned British reinforcement in southern Iraq
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A group of British soldiers gather their gear after arriving at the airport in the southern Iraqi city of Basra Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. Some 600 soldiers have arrived as part of a planned British reinforcement in southern Iraq
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Soldiers from the "New Iraqi Army" answer journalists' questions following exercises at the US military base of Kirkush, 90 kms east of Baghdad. Paul Bremer, the US overseer in Iraq (news - web sites), said earlier this month three battalions had been recruited for an Iraqi civil defence corps, some 2,500 border personnel had been signed up, and one battalion of the new Iraqi army was in training
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Iraqi Kurdish schoolgirls walk past a memorial to those killed during a poison gas attack by Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s forces in 1988 in a square in the eastern Kurdish Iraqi border town of Halabja. US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) honoured during a visit to Halabja thousands of Kurds gassed by ousted Hussein's forces. Some 5,000 civilians, mostly women and children, died in the 1988 attack by Saddam's airforce, and medical reports say that residents of the town are still suffering from a wide variety of health disorders
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Soldiers from the "New Iraqi Army" wait in line during exercises at the US military base of Kirkush, 90 kms east of Baghdad. Paul Bremer, the US overseer in Iraq (news - web sites), said earlier this month three battalions had been recruited for an Iraqi civil defence corps, some 2,500 border personnel had been signed up, and one battalion of the new Iraqi army was in training. Overall, he said, nearly 60,000 Iraqis were currently in uniform