Jane Arraf
Jane Arraf
Jane Arraf is a journalist currently based in the Middle East for Al Jazeera English. She previously served for the Christian Science Monitor. and as CNN's Baghdad Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent...
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It is a very volatile situation, one that has been going on for a month and will not go away. The U.S. has made it pretty clear they will react with overwhelming force if they feel threatened.
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I think that the real emotion is one of great pride,
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If Iraq breaks up, we tend to think it will be in nice, neat parts. There seems to be no way we can ever repair this.
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When you think of it, here they are putting on trial somebody that they believe has committed some of the worst crimes in history,
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This, they say, is the definitive battle for Samarra.
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They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines. The biggest risk here at the moment are those roadside bombs, the explosive devices. They're getting increasingly sophisticated and increasingly powerful. And there seems to be almost a never-ending supply of suicide bombers, all of them said to be foreign fighters still coming through here.
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They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines,
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This is definitely an embarrassment for the Turkish Government
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It's one of the things that the Marines and the Army feel they're lacking right now, particularly the Marines, which have very few women in those roles.
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Dozens of tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and Apache helicopters have moved in to a neighborhood in the town which is thought to be a stronghold of insurgents.
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Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi president) has guranteed the safety of the passengers aboard and will treat them as if they were Iraqi citizens.
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It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from Kansas and Alabama and all over the place, and not take some of the same risks that you're asking them to take.
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Iraqi politicians could be struggling with this, and likely will be, in one form or another for years,
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Clearly, this a traumatic event of this holy day that this attack took place.