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Byline: Dogen Hannah
BAGHDAD, Iraq _ Once again the American flag flies beside the U.S. Embassy in Iraq _ just not too high.
In a brief, highly secure ceremony Wednesday beneath a searing sun, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte, presided over the embassy's official reopening, 13 years after it closed on the eve of the Gulf War.
As Negroponte, embassy officials, top Army generals in Iraq and an audience that included about 75 embassy staffers quietly watched, Marines raised the nation's flag on a 30-foot pole in a small patch of grass in the back yard of what will be America's largest embassy.
"The embassy of the United ...
Source: HighBeam Research, U.S. Embassy in Iraq officially reopens.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)