Iraq forces face solo test during major pilgrimage

2009/07/17 15:43:50 @Reuters: International News

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces handled security without U.S. support on Friday for a major religious pilgrimage, their first big test since last month's withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraqi towns and cities. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=ruX8yCeF518:wFqexN73zZk:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=ruX8yCeF518:wFqexN73zZk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=ruX8yCeF518:wFqexN73zZk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=ruX8yCeF518:wFqexN73zZk:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=ruX8yCeF518:wFqexN73zZk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/ruX8yCeF518" height="1" width="1"/
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