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Another crash, and a crackdown

Nov 17th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda

Following another deadly helicopter crash, American troops have redoubled their efforts to root out Iraqi militants. America will hand back sovereignty to an interim national assembly, with representatives from all Iraq's provinces, by June

Reuters

IF AMERICA thought that promising sovereignty earlier to Iraqis would cause its casualty count to subside, it has so far been wrong.
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