U.S. Sticks to Military Aims amid Baghdad Turmoil

NPR | By Eric Westervelt

Published April 12, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

U.S. forces seek to remain focused on the military mission in Iraq as looting and lawlessness plague Baghdad and other cities abandoned by Saddam Hussein's government and security forces. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Baghdad.

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