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The Baghdad beat: living and working in a dangerous town.
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Airman
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May 1, 2008
- Author:
- Langton, Joel
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Airmen in Iraq welcome all the help they can get as they fight to stabilize one of the most dangerous countries in the world.
Security forces Tech. Sgt. Traci Bauder knows that's especially true in Baghdad.
Pock-marked with bomb craters and bullet holes, its buildings scarred from years of warfare and rife with suicide bombers and roadside-bomb planting insurgents, the city oozes with danger.
That's why the sergeant from Harrah, Okla., does all she can to keep Airmen who venture outside U.S. military bases as safe as possible. Her weapon? Information.
"The intel pours in here like water through a fire hose. We sort out what pertains ...
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August 7, 2006 ;
787 words
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
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321 words
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
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766 words
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
February 26, 2007 ;
342 words
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
February 6, 2007 ;
388 words
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Iraqi Police Suspected In Slaying of Americans
The Washington Post;
March 13, 2004 ;
Sewell Chan;
628 words
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955 Iraqi police graduate _ but authorities won't say where
AP Worldstream;
October 7, 2004 ;
213 words
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Insurgents have infiltrated Iraqi police, national security adviser says
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September 21, 2005 ;
310 words
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Iraqi police kill three foreign insurgents in north of Baghdad
Xinhua News Agency;
February 19, 2008 ;
175 words
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COALITION FOCUSES ON IRAQI POLICE INFRASTRUCTURE, ORGANIZATION
Regulatory Intelligence Data;
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INDSTRY GROUP 91;
690 words
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
November 28, 2007 ;
280 words
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Iraq's hottest front line: the police; The US shifts $1.8 billion from...
The Christian Science Monitor;
September 17, 2004 ;
787 words
......the war's end, 700 Iraqi police officers have died...programs to add more security forces. It's a strategy...line to join the Iraqi police. There are no jobs...generally hold their own security forces in high esteem...confidence in the new Iraqi forces than in ...
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US troops withdraw from Fallujah as Iraqi police began deployment
Xinhua News Agency;
April 30, 2004 ;
298 words
...US troops withdraw from Fallujah as Iraqi police began deployment BAGHDAD, April 30 (Xinhua...several parts of Fallujah early on Friday as Iraqi police deployed in some parts of the besieged Iraqi city, witnesses said. The US troops had moved...the killing and mutilation of four US civil ...
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COALITION FORCES ASSIST IN IRAQI POLICE PAY DAY
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
February 1, 2008 ;
174 words
......press release: Nearly 200 Iraqi police officers receive their monthly...the help of expeditionary security forces members. Members of Det. 3 of the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, 716th Military...they have ensured the proper Iraqi police are paid. Squad ...
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Profile: US officials look for ways to overhaul Iraqi police
Morning Edition (NPR);
January 27, 2005 ;
RENEE MONTAGNE;
787 words
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