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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42859-2003Apr6.html
New Iraqi Army Forming
(Washington Post) Bradley Graham - The U.S. has begun airlifting hundreds of members of an Iraqi exile group into southern Iraq, vanguard elements of what a high-ranking Pentagon officer said would form the basis of a new Iraqi army. Taking up camp on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, the soldiers belong to the Iraqi National Congress and are led by Ahmed Chalabi, a London-based former banker and principal founder of the INC.