The operation is being led by an elite Iraqi anti-terrorist unit from Baghdad and this is the largest of its kind since the Americans handed back control of urban areas to Iraqi forces.

该行动由伊拉克巴格达反恐精英单位领导，这是自美国从伊拉克城镇撤军以来最大的类似行动。

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The roads they're about to travel are hot spots for insurgents, or AIF in military parlance, an acronym for anti-Iraqi forces.

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"Marines responded to the attacks with overwhelming small arms and mortar fire, as well as close-air support, killing 36 anti-Iraqi forces, " the military said in a written statement.

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And owing to their sudden devotion to stability, Obama's surrogates tell us the Syrians and Iranians will support the new anti-Syrian and anti-Iranian Iraqi democracy and even protect it after the US withdraws its forces from the country.

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