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Iraqi government vows to take back Baghdad's streets

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Vowing to take back Baghdad's mean streets, Iraq government said Thursday it would deploy 40,000 police and soldiers in the capital to hunt down insurgents and clamp a gauntlet of steel around the city.

 

The show of force by Iraqi forces would be the largest in the violence-wracked capital since the fall of Saddam Hussein and be a major test Iraq's fledgling police and military. (AP)

 

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