The Associated Press
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WILMINGTON -
Camp Lejeune Marines are coming home from Iraq.About 1,000 Marines and sailors from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, is to return Monday. The battalion is completing a seven-month deployment to Ramadi, the provincial capital of Al-Anbar province in western Iraq.Anbar is a key province. It accounts for 30 percent of Iraq's land mass and stretches from Baghdad to the borders of Syria and Jordan.
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