Mr. BOWEN: Our latest report has two more audits from the activities of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Hillah.

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Hillah is the modern location of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the hanging gardens of Babylon.

CNN: Fedayeen fights hard in Hillah

On January 27, 2004, our two-car convoy was returning to Baghdad from an assignment in Hillah, in the south of the country.

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HILLAH, Iraq (CNN) -- American troops met stiff resistance Tuesday morning from Iraqi paramilitary forces for control of an agricultural complex on the outskirts of the central town of Hillah.

CNN: Fedayeen fights hard in Hillah

But ICRC teams can no longer access the towns of Karbala, Nasiriya, Najaf and Hillah, and a convoy carrying medical supplies for hospital in Hillah had to be canceled, he said.

CNN: Food, medicine convoys enter Iraq

Soldiers from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division secured the central Iraqi city of Hillah, south of Baghdad, site of the ancient Hanging Gardens of Babylon, reported CNN Correspondent Ryan Chilcote, who is embedded with the unit.

CNN: Saddam regime loses grip on Baghdad

Coalition forces have now largely brought under control all of major cities of south and central Iraq, including Basra, Nasiriya, Najaf, Hillah, Karbala and Baghdad, as well as Iraq's main port, Umm Qasr, and its southern oil fields.

CNN: Saddam regime loses grip on Baghdad

Timberman said the State Department teams working out of the provincial capital, Hillah, were grounded most of the time because the State Department regional security officer would not permit them to travel despite their high-priced security personnel and armored vehicles.

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General Jim Mattis in Hillah, he said that the two groups who fought most aggressively during the major combat operations were the Fedayeen Saddam -- homegrown thugs with a cult-like attachment to Saddam -- and foreign fighters, principally from other Arab countries.

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