Baghdad still a battle zone, marines move into Tikrit
As some Iraqis looted new parts of Baghdad that had been opened up by US troops, two new clashes today indicated that Iraq's capital is still a battle
zone. A gunman who shot dead a Marine guarding a hospital in Baghdad yesterday was a Syrian, U.S. Central Command said.
The marine, from the First Marine Expeditionary Force, was manning a checkpoint outside the hospital when he was approached by two men posing as landscape workers, one of whom opened fire and killed him, a Central Command statement said.
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