Operation Scimitar launched by U.S. Marines, Iraqi soldiers

Sunday, July 10, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- About 600 U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers have launched a fourth counterinsurgency operation in less than a month in a volatile western province in Iraq, this time near Fallujah, the military said Saturday.

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