US Raid Against Rebel Town of Tikrit

World | January 9, 2004, Friday // 00:00

US troops in Iraq raided houses and shops across Tikrit late Thursday in an operation aimed at weeding out remaining resistance in the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Russell, whose battalion is due soon to pull out of Iraq along with the rest of the division which controls a large chunk of northern Iraq, said earlier the raids were a "scrubbing" exercise for Tikrit.

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