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| | DefendAmerica 12/04/2003 - Edition 1 |
 | | BAYONET LIGHTNING — Soldiers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, pull security on the streets of Al Hawijah, Iraq, during Operation Bayonet Lightning, Dec. 2, 2003. |
 | | Bayonet Lightning is a joint operation to seek out former regime loyalists, foreign fighters and other "persons of interest" in the city. |
 | | BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 2, 2003 —; The Al-Muthana Bridge in Northern Baghdad is important to the economic vitality of Baghdad and critical to the support of military operations in the city, and, as the northernmost bridge in Baghdad, supports heavy industrial traffic. |
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