Jane Arraf
Jane Arraf
Jane Arraf is a journalist currently based in the Middle East for Al Jazeera English. She previously served for the Christian Science Monitor. and as CNN's Baghdad Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent...
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They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines. The biggest risk here at the moment are those roadside bombs, the explosive devices. They're getting increasingly sophisticated and increasingly powerful. And there seems to be almost a never-ending supply of suicide bombers, all of them said to be foreign fighters still coming through here.
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Clearly, this a traumatic event of this holy day that this attack took place.
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Dozens of tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and Apache helicopters have moved in to a neighborhood in the town which is thought to be a stronghold of insurgents.
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I think that the real emotion is one of great pride,
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It's one of the things that the Marines and the Army feel they're lacking right now, particularly the Marines, which have very few women in those roles.
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You could really have divisions in the country that are made deeper by the ambiguity of the constitution.
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Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi president) has guranteed the safety of the passengers aboard and will treat them as if they were Iraqi citizens.
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This, they say, is the definitive battle for Samarra.
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When you think of it, here they are putting on trial somebody that they believe has committed some of the worst crimes in history,