On a map of Baghdad, the US Army's Forward Operating Base Falcon is clearly within city limits.Via Fark.
Except that Iraqi and American military officials have decided it's not..."We and the Iraqis decided it wasn't in the city," says a US military official. The base on the southern outskirts of Baghdad's Rasheed district is an example of the fluidity of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) agreed to late last year, which orders all US combat forces out of Iraqi cities, towns, and villages by June 30.
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