War Update: Tikrit

By Michele Norris

Published April 13, 2003 at 6:00 PM HST

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Matthew Fisher, reporter for the Canadian newspaper the National Post, traveling with the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion of the Marine 7th Regiment in Tikrit.

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