When Americans came to the ‘most dangerous city in the world.’
American soldiers in western Ramadi in 2006. (Photo by the United States Marine Corps)
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When Benjamin Sledge landed in Ramadi, Iraq, it looked like an “all-out urban hellscape.” Bombed out buildings. Walls riddled with bullets. Massive craters in the ground. The smell was a mix of burning trash and human waste.
