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War Update: Umm Qasr

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Owen Bennett-Jones, a BBC reporter, who sailed into the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr on the British supply ship Sir Galahad today. Bennett-Jones talks about the immense security precautions used to guard the Sir Galahad from mines and small crafts as it sailed into port with the first military shipment of relief aid for Iraqis.

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