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Ar Rutba Travel Guide
From Wikitravel
Asia : Middle East : Iraq : Al Anbar : Ar Rutba
Ar Rutba is located in the Al Anbar Province and is the westernmost town of any real size. As of this writing, Ar Rutba is a hotbed of insurgent activity and one of the towns harbouring insurgents. Ar Rutba is a Sunni majority city and was most notably the site of a large part of the old Iraqi air defense warning system housing a number of military personnel there. The warning station was destroyed in the 1990-91 Gulf War. Ar Rutba today is most noted as a place where US Marines have died and continue to in an effort to impose American rule on the people of Ar Rutba.
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