- BAGHDAD (AFP) - Action film
muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday paid a lightning visit to Baghdad
for US Independence Day to cheer American troops deployed in Iraq, the
US military said.
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- "He came in to see the troops at Camp Victory off
Highway Eight on the Baghdad airport road, but he has already left,"
Specialist Nicole Thompson told AFP.
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- Thompson said that before coming to Baghdad, Schwarzenegger
visited US troops based in Kuwait and attended a screening of his new movie
"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."
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- Schwarzenegger was to carry a copy of his film on the
Iraq visit to show the troops, his agent Jill Eisenstadt said Thursday.
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- American troops in Iraq vowed to hold "grand style"
US Independence Day celebrations in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul
with concerts, barbecue feasts and surprise "morale-boosting"
events.
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- At Baghdad Airport, troops were to be treated to a "burger
giveaway" for lunch, said Thompson.
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- The celebrations to boost troop morale come at a time
of growing US public concern over the rising number of US casualties in
Iraq and how long the troops will be committed here.
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