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Iraqi troops pulling back from positions in northern front.
Byline: Mark McDonald
KALAK, Iraq _ A large crack began to open in the northern front Tuesday as some of Saddam Hussein's most battered but resolute troopers prepared to pull back from their long-held frontline positions east of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city.
Pounded by days and nights of American bombing and missile strikes, Iraqi infantrymen and anti-aircraft gunners on a ridge above the village of Kalak were seen collapsing their earthen bunkers, packing up their tents and loading weapons into camouflaged trucks.
The drab little village of Kalak, home to a few hundred Kurdish farmers and shepherds, has suddenly assumed an outsized ...
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