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AL TAQADDUM, Iraq (Feb. 7, 2008) -- The 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward) transferred the responsibility of combat logistics in Iraq’s Al Anbar province to the 1st Marine Logistics Group during a ceremony here Thursday. In January 2007, the same month the 2nd MLG (Fwd) arrived in theater, President George W. Bush said in an address to the nation that “Al Qaeda has helped make Anbar the most violent area of Iraq outside the capital,” and news reports regularly referred to the “volatile Anbar province” as a stronghold for Al Qaeda and the Sunni insurgency. One year later the province...