The public artwork went on display in Tikrit, 90 miles north-west of Baghdad.

这尊雕塑在距巴格达90英里的提克里特展出。

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Hertling was speaking near Tikrit in a teleconference with reporters at the Pentagon.

赫特林是在提克里特附近跟五角大楼记者举行视频记者会时说的这番话。

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A suicide car-bombing,earlier, killed five policeman and several civilians near an Iraqi police station in the town of Shirqat, close to Tikrit.

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Many Tikrit townspeople have family or tribal ties to the government and the Republican Guard.

CNN: Stronghold of Tikrit may be Saddam's last stand

Lieutenant Colonel Todd Wood of Richmond Hill, Georgia, is training Iraqi forces in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.

NPR: Bush Reaffirms Iraq Strategy

Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader toppled by the United States in 2003, was from the Tikrit region.

CNN: Shoe-throwing monument removed from Iraqi orphanage