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COMMENTS: Baking Baqubah
CBS' Lara Logan yesterday showed us the Second Infantry Division's house-to-house searches of Baqubah in Iraq's Diyala Province. Now NBC's Jim Maceda joins the Third Stryker Brigade in its effort to pacify just eight city blocks. "Baqubah had become the capital of al-Qaeda's future Islamist state," claimed Maceda, although the video he showed as illustration was from a different Islamist group, Ansar al-Sunnah. Maceda showed us a sniper firing at shadows and the arrest of a village elder. Much of Maceda's footage was murky, shot with night vision, because daytime summer temperatures in Baqubah are so hot--up to 140F--that the Stryker Brigade prefers to strike after dark "surprising extremists in their sleep."
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