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US starts military-build along Iraq's border with Syria: 

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. 
                            
OT/HZ/AH                                                              
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