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US troops encounter little resistance in Tikrit area: general
AS-SALIYAH (AFP) Apr 13, 2003
 US troops Sunday were encountering little resistance around the key Iraqi town of Tikrit and were getting help from the local population, a US general said at the war command headquarters in Qatar.

"I can certainly say that we're having some success inside that area," Brigadier-General Vincent Brooks said in reference to the northern city.

"Not much combat action is occurring; that's good news," he told journalists

at Camp As-Saliyah in Qatar.

"We are getting assistance from the Iraqi population," the general said.

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