Iraq Reviews

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 [Riverbendblog.blogspot.com] Baghdad Burning: He sets up his stand early in the morning and when you pass it by at just the right time, there’s a myriad of colors: the even brown of potatoes, deep green of spinach, bright orange of citrus fruits and the glossy red of sweet Iraqi tomatoes”¦ And Abu Ammar is almost always there- come rain or sun or war, sitting in the midst of his vegetables and fruits, going through a newspaper, a cigarette in his mouth and crackling out of his little transistor radio are the warm tones of Fayrouz. On those rare occasions when Abu Ammar isn’t there, you can tell something is very wrong.

[Dahrjamailiraq.com] Iraq Dispatches: "Democracy" in Iraq: I watched the news about the aforementioned statements by al-Dahri on Al-Jazeera with one of my close Iraqi friends here. As we watched the large funeral procession with the body of the murdered cleric while al-Dahri made his ferocious statements, I watched her head drop into her hands as she said softly, "This is so horrible what has happened to my country since the Americans came."

 [Detnews.com] Sunni leader announces rare closing of mosques - 05/21/05: In another part of Baghdad, Shiite worshippers pumped fists in the air in a show of resilience after two mortar rounds hit near their mosque, one of the capital's leading Shiite places of worship, during Friday prayers, wounding two. Shiite political leaders, clerics and some worshippers urged restraint in the face of tit-for-tat killings they called a calculated effort to draw Iraq's newly dominant Shiite majority and disgruntled Sunni minority into sectarian war.

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