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Troops fight 122 degree heat in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- It's 122 degrees in the shade.

The temperature in the Iraqi capital -- already superheated by resistance to the American occupation -- has danced around that enervating, shoe-sole frying figure for days now.

This year, with electricity in short supply after the war, what is normally a nuisance has become a catalyst for violence that raises the deadly threat facing U.S. and British soldiers.

Two American tanks rumbled by Monday as Saad Ali, 37, welded a window frame in the ironmonger district in northwest Baghdad.

He lifted an old pair of sun glass lenses, held in place by a braid of rubber bands. Grime circled his eyes; circles of perspiration dimpled his bright green T-shirt, shot through with holes from welding sparks. ....

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