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| | DefenseLINK News: Despite Challenges, Iraqi Forces 'In the Fight' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Some Iraqis have paid for their freedom with their lives, Petraeus pointed out, noting that more than 700 Iraqi security force members have been killed since Jan. |
 | | But despite insurgent efforts to destabilize the Iraqi government, Petraeus wrote, six battalions of the new Iraqi Army and members of the Iraqi Intervention Force are now conducting anti-insurgent operations across the country. |
 | | In the months ahead, the Iraqi border force is expected to expand from 16,000 members today to 32,000, the general noted. |
| www.defenselink.mil /news/Sep2004/n09292004_2004092910.html (543 words) |
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