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Turner meets with Iraqi mayor on Capitol Hill
U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, former mayor of Dayton, got to talk city leadership Wednesday with Farhan Ftaikhan Al-Farhan, the mayor of Al Qaim, Iraq. Al-Farhan, in town as part of a trip around the nation to study cities in a Democratcy, talked U.S.-Iraq relations and security conditions in the Al Anbar province where Al Qaim is located. The mayor also received a tour of the Capitol courtesy of Turner’s office.
Al-Farhan, through a translator, said he took office at a time when terrorist attacks were rampant in the city, but that, thanks in part to the efforts of the U.S. Marines, violence has died down. Terrorist attacks cost his city 5,000 homes at the height of the violence, but most of the residents of those homes have returned to the city.
Turner, R-Centerville, ranking member on the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee, has visited Iraq five times, and toured Al Anbar province during an August 2008 trip to Iraq.
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