U.S. ground forces in Baghdad battle odds to restore security

Friday, May 16, 2003

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Raising both hands in a frantic plea, a woman in a scarf and leopard-print housecoat begged the American soldiers: Don't take away her family's two battered Kalashnikovs.

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