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2nd Spot News

Steve Hebert, Fayetteville Observer

1st Lt. Dennis Marshall, uses a handgun to cover Sgt. First Class Dean Bissey ,right, as he performs a security search on an Iraqi man near the Iraqi town of As Samawah, Monday afternoon. Soldiers in 325 Airborne Infantry Regiment were finishing up a resupply mission when they came by the bedowins who were walking down the road, near town. The convoy stopped them as a safety percaution. They do these searches routinely. The men were let go to do their business after the group was searched. In the background, three M1 Abrams tanks roll over a bridge .