U.S. Marines hand over control to Poles

Thursday, September 4, 2003

BABYLON, Iraq -- The United States, eager to share security duties in Iraq, handed military control over a large swath of the country to a Polish commander Wednesday during a ceremony in the ruins of an amphitheater built by Alexander the Great.

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