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WASHINGTON, July 16, 2006 – U.S. and Iraqi soldiers killed two terrorists and captured seven others during a joint operation conducted in a rural area northwest of Baghdad late last week, officials in Iraq reported. The Iraqi soldiers and Multinational Corps Iraq soldiers from 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, participated in the July 13 firefight. Four local citizens gave information that led to the terrorists' capture. The Iraqis told the soldiers about some men carrying an RPK machine gun and a mortar tube in the neighborhood and provided possible locations. The soldiers observed...

Report: 30,000 U.S. troops now in northern Saudi Arabia SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COMTuesday, March 11, 2003 ABU DHABI — Saudi opposition sources, whose initial reports of a U.S. deployment in northern Saudi Arabia have proven credible, now assert that the number of U.S. troops in the kingdom has reached 30,000. Saad Al Faqih, a spokesman for the London-based Saudi Islamic Reform Movement, said the U.S. forces are being deployed along the Iraqi-Saudi border. Faqih told the Qatari-based A-Jazeera satellite channel that the U.S. troops are equipped with weapons and are being harbored in Saudi military bases. More U.S. troops...