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Article: Allied troops bypass holy sites on march to Baghdad.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2003
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Byline: Larry Witham, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The U.S. military expedition into Iraq has skirted ancient sites named in Jewish and Christian scriptures and apparently avoided sacred turf where Shi'ite Muslims had their historic and bloody showdown with rival Sunnis.
Troops that invaded from the south crossed territory called the cradle of civilization and traditionally considered the site of the Garden of Eden. The troops passed by Abraham's birthplace of Ur and the heart of ancient Sumer, whose poetry told of a creation and flood like that in the book of Genesis.
Halfway to Baghdad, they passed the tomb of the founder of Shi'ite Islam and the ...
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