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Islamic Republic News Agency: US starts military-build along Iraq's border with Syria: German daily

Berlin, April 14, IRNA -- The United States has apparently began a
major military build-up along Iraq's western borders with Syria, the
daily Bild cited confidential remarks by an unidentified US general.
New American troop contingents and heavy military hardware,
including A-10 fighter planes, M1 'Abrams' tanks, 'Apache' combat
helicopters and massive bomb arsenals, have been secretly deployed in
the Iraqi town of Ar-Rutbah .
Washington has repeatedly threatened Damascus over the past days
for allegedly aiding the deposed Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
Syria has dismissed the American charges.
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