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Sniper Teams Key to U.S. Counterinsurgency Effort

Members of the 39th Infantry Brigade of the Arkansas National Guard patrol the Adhamiya district of Baghdad.
Mike Shuster, NPR
Members of the 39th Infantry Brigade of the Arkansas National Guard patrol the Adhamiya district of Baghdad.

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Mike Shuster
Mike Shuster is an award-winning diplomatic correspondent and roving foreign correspondent for NPR News. He is based at NPR West, in Culver City, CA. When not traveling outside the U.S., Shuster covers issues of nuclear non-proliferation and weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the Pacific Rim.
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