Above U.S. soldiers stand by as Iraqi soldiers are drilled in the use of a 120mm mortar launcher during a training operation near the town of Latifiyah on May 11 2009.

上图中，是在2009年5月11日，位于拉蒂菲耶镇附近的一次军事演练中，美国士兵在伊拉克士兵身旁观看他们操练一台射程120mm的大炮。

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Yet the towns of Iskandariyah, Latifiyah and Mahmudiyah, 30-45 km (19-28 miles) south of Baghdad, are even more forbidding.

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