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COMMENTS: Mayor for Life
With all the attention on Iran this week, we had to wait until Friday for the first report filed from Iraq. NBC's Stephanie Gosk took a trip south from Baghdad to al-Haswa with Gen Rick Lynch. Lynch was celebrating the peace and quiet that has descended on the town of 80,000 in the last two months since 120 US troops set up a base in a local police station and the militia based in a nearby Shiite mosque, loyalists of Muqtada al-Sadr, declared a ceasefire. Next al-Haswa, with 80% unemployment, needs to improve its economy, Gosk noted, and a young officer will be "the new mayor." Declared the general, "Captain Walker is never leaving."
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