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Gen. Petraeus Ends Time In Iraq With Handover

NPR | By Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Published September 16, 2008 at 4:00 PM EDT

Copyright 2008 NPR

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Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Lulu Garcia-Navarro is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. She is infamous in the IT department of NPR for losing laptops to bullets, hurricanes, and bomb blasts.

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