AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
June 29, 2009
Iraq’s security forces were Monday on high alert in Baghdad as US troops finalised their withdrawal from the conflict-hit nation’s urban areas, an event to be marked by a massive party in the capital.
[efoods]The US pullout, under a bilateral security accord signed last year, will be completed on Tuesday, which has been declared a national holiday.
In the wake of several massive bombings that have killed more than 200 people this month, soldiers and police were out in force in Baghdad.
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