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Saturday, August 09, 2003 |
"Riots broke out yesterday in the southern port of Basra as tensions exploded over the British control of Iraq's second largest city, leaving seven soldiers and four Iraqi civilians injured.
Residents hurled rocks and burned tires in all the city's main streets as Iraqis raged in the blistering summer heat over the tortoise-like pace of the coalition force's reconstruction efforts..."
Gulf News
11:48:53 PM 
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"President Bush on Saturday vowed a "long-term undertaking" to bring democracy and economic prosperity to Iraq and across the Middle East.
In his weekly radio address, broadcast amid renewed violence in Iraq and marking 100 days since he announced major combat operations over, Bush offered an upbeat assessment.
Despite almost daily attacks on U.S. troops in which 55 have been killed, Bush said Iraq was more secure with 6,000 Iraqi police patrolling Baghdad and about 20,000 more on duty in other towns.
The U.S. military and its allies had made "steady progress," he asserted. "We're keeping our word to the Iraqi people by helping them to make their country an example of democracy and prosperity throughout the region..."
Reuters
10:38:48 PM
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