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War Update: View from Baghdad

By Anne Garrels

Published April 9, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Anne Garrels reports on the events of the day in the Iraqi capital. U.S. Marines swept into the heart of the city from the east, meeting little resistance as they linked up with Army units that had entered western Baghdad earlier in the week.

Anne Garrels

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