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Militias finished in Iraq's Basra: governor
The Shi'ite Mehdi Army militia is finished as a fighting force in Iraq's oil rich Basra province and upcoming provincial elections should pass without violence, the province's governor said on Tuesday.
Posted by: 3dc 2008-07-09
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