But the visit also reflected the delicate situation in Mosul as Ms. Rice -- making her second trip to Iraq as secretary of state and her first outside of Baghdad , which is about 300 miles south of here -- flew from Bahrain directly to a heavily fortified military base north of the Tigris River , surrounding an old palace of Saddam Hussein 's on the city 's northern outskirts .
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