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Article: Iraqi forces control Najaf province
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- December 21, 2006
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NAJAF, Iraq -- U.S. forces ceded control of southern Najaf
province to Iraqi police and soldiers, who marked the occasion
Wednesday with a parade and martial arts demonstrations. But doubts
remain about whether the Iraqis, vulnerable to insurgent attacks and
militia infiltration, can handle security in more volatile provinces
anytime soon.
In one of those provinces, Baghdad, police found 76 bodies, some
of them blindfolded and handcuffed, on Wednesday. Many of the
victims had been shot and some showed signs of torture, a police
officer said on condition of anonymity for safety reasons. Two
suicide car bombings also killed at least 19 people in the capital.
The handover of Najaf came as new ...