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  • Ramadi war zone now rare bright spot

    10/28/2007 3:22:43 PM PDT · by Wiz · 18 replies · 88+ views
    Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2007 Oct 28 | Kim Curtis
    RAMADI, Iraq - For veterans of Ramadi, it seems like a different place and a different war. ADVERTISEMENT Just last year, soldiers were breaking down doors, hunting insurgents and struggling to secure the city block by block. U.S. troops now are invited into the homes of sheiks for lunch. Life is not all good in this former Sunni extremist fiefdom about 70 miles west of Baghdad, but it's better. Today's worries aren't car bombs or shelling in the streets. There's peace enough to complain about the crippled electricity grid, dirty water, broken sewers. Marines and soldiers also have adopted different...