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REPUBLICAN GUARD TARGETED: AP: Allies

· Monday, March 24, 2003 · No comments

REPUBLICAN GUARD TARGETED: AP: Allies Target Elite Force Near Baghdad. Coalition planes targeted Republican Guard forces just south of Baghdad on Monday in perhaps the largest assault to date on Saddam Hussein’s highly trained troops, U.S. officials said.

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm vet. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

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