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Here's a story you will not see on ABCNBCCBSCNN:

Second Class of Iraqi Female Soldiers Graduates

ZARQA MILITARY TRAINING BASE, Jordan, July 7, 2004 — Forty female Iraqi soldiers will graduate from the Jordanian Royal Military Academy here July 9, the second of three classes of this type planned to train at the academy, according to Office of Security Transition officials.

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One would think that franchising and empowering women would be right down the Lefty media's alley, except Afghani or Iraqi women of course, who must be portrayed as frightened does caught in the glare of US stormtrooper searchlights.

UPDATE: It appears Iraqi women don't have to wait for this little girl.