In the eastern Ramadi neighborhood of Sufiya, candy was handed out as people came to vote.
There were about 100 police at Ramadi last year, now there are around 4, 000.
Another, Iron Hammer, targeted the area near Hit, a Euphrates River town north of Ramadi.
Jeffrey Pool of the 2nd Marine Division dismissed talk of widespread attacks in Ramadi.
In Anbar province, Iraqi police and army troops lined the streets of downtown Ramadi.
In April 2006, that unit deployed to Iraq's troubled and violent western provincial capital of Ramadi.
We have a really nice women's center in downtown Ramadi where women go in for vocational training.
Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha was killed in a bomb blast while leaving his home in Ramadi.
And she volunteered to extend her tour of duty of duty to stay with me in Ramadi.
Christopher Everett died while using a power washer at an American base outside Ramadi, in western Iraq.
Sent back to Ramadi last year for a third rotation, Elmore began to worry for his own safety.
At Thursday's ceremony, Mr. Panetta evoked the most important battles of the war in Fallujah, Ramadi and Sadr City.
In Ramadi, local clerics used mosque sound systems, usually reserved for calls to prayer, to urge people to vote.
Everett, an Army sergeant, was electrocuted in 2005 while using a power washer at an American base outside Ramadi.
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Although the security situation in Ramadi has improved dramatically, appearances can be deceiving.
But in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit and other Sunni cities, including the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, angry demonstrators denounced the sentence.
Places like Baghdad, Ramadi, Fallujah, Sadr City, Najaf and elsewhere throughout Iraq.
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One of those fallen heroes is a Marine Corporal named Jeff Starr, who was killed fighting the terrorists in Ramadi earlier this year.
Reports say the victims were new police recruits who had just finished training with US troops in Ramadi, about 60 miles west of Baghdad.
Two police officers in Ramadi earlier said gunmen had clashed with Iraqi soldiers in eastern Ramadi on Thursday morning but could not give further details.
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Predominantly Sunni cities like Ramadi, which saw a paltry few thousand turn out when most Sunnis boycotted the January election, were completely different on Thursday.
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Most of the US soldiers have been killed in attacks on road convoys, firefights in the Sunni-dominated towns of Falluja and Ramadi and battles in and around Baghdad.
The clashes broke out after Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq arrived to address crowds protesting in a plaza in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi.
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One of these, Operation Tigers, occurred in Ramadi over the weekend.
Whether Ramadi becomes the next Dubai, slips back into sectarian chaos or ends up somewhere in between will be decided by Iraqis and, perhaps, their neighbors.
Delta Platoon was involved in attacks on 75 percent of its missions in a highly contested part of Ramadi called the Ma'laab district, according to the Navy.
Beginning last year with a build-up of U.S. forces near al-Qaeda strongholds in the city, U.S. soldiers and Marines joined Iraqis in an offensive to gain control of Ramadi.
The convoy was heading from Baiji -- the site of Iraq's largest oil refinery -- to Ramadi, in Iraq's volatile Anbar province west of Baghdad, the police official said.
In Iraq today, in the city of Ramadi, the capital of the western province of Anbar, US military officers were meeting local leaders when insurgents attacked the site with mortars.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- American troops are focusing their efforts on the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi to establish stability ahead of the December 15 elections, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday.
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