For four years, selling pork or alcohol in Baghdad was a security risk. But the acts of terror committed by Islamist fundamentalists, who once punished such violations of their interpretation of the Koran with attacks on businesses and their...
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Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, a hulking and aggressive New Jersey native, has been picked to succeed the more cerebral and diplomatic David Petraeus as the top commander in Iraq this summer. Petraeus is being promoted to oversee the entire Middle...
Whenever I am trying to get a glimpse of what's happening at street level in Baghdad, I call my friend Abbas.
E-mail Trudy Rubin at trubin@phillynews.com.
He is a driver and businessman, and a member of a large Shiite clan from a...
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The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Trudy Rubin says that Iraqis feel a ray of hope about their future. I don’t doubt that they’re feeling more optimistic but saying that it’s only a ray of hope seems understated. Rubin says that whenever she wants to know...
In a Mahdi Army stronghold, where no one has seen the militia, troops struggle to find renegade fighters
BAGHDAD Staff Sgt. Robert Smith, a buff 31-year-old from North Carolina, strides down a narrow alley in the northwest Baghdad neighborhood...
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