Word: khaldiya
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...Shot the night of Sept. 6, the video shows an attack on the ammunition storage point at Khaldiya, on the outskirts of the Sunni-dominated town of Falljuah, just west of Baghdad. The ammo dump is about 1.25 miles long and, according to a U.S. military engineer, contains so much ammunition it would take weapons disposal experts a year to blow it all up. Since the official end of hostilities in May, anti-U.S. forces have been raiding the facility, taking mines, anti-tank rounds and other weapons . The unit currently based there, from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment...
...found itself locked into its current Iraq quandary. U.S. commander Lt.-Gen. Ricardo Sanchez announced Thursday that in the past week alone, four of his men were killed and 46 were wounded in combat. That was before three more were killed at Tikrit Thursday, and more were wounded at Khaldiya. And the Bush administration is not currently expecting substantial levels of military or financial support to lighten the U.S. load. Had postwar Iraq at least offered the spectacle of grateful Iraqis cheering the U.S. as their liberators and getting on with rebuilding the country, the question of Iraq's weapons...
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