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  • How life returned to the streets in a showpiece city that drove out al-Qaeda

    08/31/2007 8:35:52 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 13 replies · 851+ views
    Times Online ^ | August 31 2007 | rtin Fletcher
    An American ‘martyr’ is being hailed in the Sunni Triangle for restoring peace to a town where soldiers now fight only water leaks The police station in Tameen, a district of Ramadi, occupies a wreck of a building – its roof shattered by shells, its windows blown out, its walls pockmarked by shrapnel. That is not unusual in Iraq. What makes this station extraordinary is that a city in the heart of the infamous Sunni Triangle, a city that once led the antiAmerican insurgency, has named it after a US soldier – Captain Travis Patriquin. The honour is well-deserved. Captain...