We were in a town called al-Bu Hardan, which is about two miles from the Syrian border southwest of here.

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Awakening Council chief Sheikh Wissam al-Hardan was meanwhile quoted by state television as saying that if those responsible for killing soldiers in the past week were not handed over, it would "take the requested procedures and do what it did in 2006".

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