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Iraq deploy more troops on border with Syria

November 1, 2008 - 04:35:20

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq on Saturday deployed more police forces at the border with Syria, as it dismantled a number of its border points with Iraq after the U.S. air strike on a target within the Syrian territories days a go.

“Troops from the quick response force of al-Anbar province moved toward al-Qaem border city (200 miles northwest of Baghdad),” Brigadier Jubeer Rasheed Naif told Aswat al-Iraq.

“This measure was taken to prevent al-Qaeda Organization’s fighters from moving into Iraq from Syria,” he added.

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