Photo: #Martha Raddatz, then senior national security correspondent for ABC News, in Mosul, Iraq, in 2005.
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Martha Raddatz, then senior national security correspondent for ABC News, in Mosul, Iraq, in 2005. (Photo courtesy of Greta Bradlee, UC-Berkeley)

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War in Iraq

The day America found out it faced an insurgency

Broadcast: Midday, 03/14/2007, 11:06 a.m.

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April 4, 2004. American troops on patrol in Baghdad's Sadr City slum came under fire from Iraqi militants -- hundreds of them. ABC's Martha Raddatz says it was a turning point in the war. She's out with a new book on the battle, the soldiers who fought in it and their families.

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  • Martha Raddatz: Chief White House correspondent for ABC News. Raddatz has been to Iraq a dozen times since the war began. Her book is titled "The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family."

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