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Iraqis strole in the Zawra Park in central Baghdad where people are gathering to enjoy the fun fair rides and other attractions as they celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan, on September 21, 2009. View Photo »
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The US Vice President Joe Biden briefs media in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. View Photo »
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The US Vice President Joe Biden briefs media in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. View Photo »
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The US Vice President Joe Biden briefs media in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. View Photo »
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Baghdad September 15, 2009. View Photo »
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The governor of Baghdad, Salah Abed Razak, speaks to the press as he holds up a picture of a Muslim religious book used to hide a bomb at the governorate in central Baghdad, on September 13, 2009. View Photo »
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The governor of Baghdad Salah Abed Razak speaks to the press as Huda Abed al-Nabi listens on at the governorate in central Baghdad, on September 13, 2009. View Photo »
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Map locates Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad where prisoners attacked guards. View Photo »
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Map locates Abu Ghrab prison near Baghdad where prisoners attacked guards. View Photo »
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A housekeeper dusts a chair at the desk of Al-Baghdadiya TV reporter Muntadhar al-Zeidi in preparation for his release from jail, for throwing his shoes at then U.S. President George W. Bush, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. View Photo »
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Iraqi Safaa Jalil, 24, who was wounded in a Baghdad bombing last month, arrives at a hospital in Kuwait City on September 3, 2009. View Photo »
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Iraqi Randa Saed, 23, who was wounded in a Baghdad bombing last month, arrives at a hospital in Kuwait City on September 3, 2009. View Photo »
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Iraqi Kathmiya Natour, 54, who was wounded in a Baghdad bombing last month, arrives at a hospital in Kuwait City on September 3, 2009. View Photo »
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Iraqi Kathmiya Natour, 54, who was wounded in a Baghdad bombing last month, arrives at a hospital in Kuwait City on September 3, 2009. View Photo »
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Iraqi soldiers confiscate weapons after a raid operation in Baghdad, September 2, 2009. View Photo »
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Iraqi policemen stand guard outside a bank in central Baghdad, Iraq, that was the site of a July robbery, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. View Photo »
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks to reporters in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. View Photo »
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Mourners carry the coffin of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim in Baghdad, Iraq, during a two-day funeral procession Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. View Photo »
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The no. 2 Syrian diplomat in Baghdad, Bassam Haj Hassan is seen during a meeting with Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister Labid Abbawi, not seen, to discuss Iraqi demands that Damascus turn over two purported Baathist operatives allegedly linked to last week... View Photo »
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Iraqi policemen apprehend one of the two suspects in Baghdad August 25, 2009. Two suspects have been arrested after ransacking the house in an attack that left a father and his daughter dead and the mother seriously injured, police reported on Tuesday. View Photo »
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Baghdad (Arabic بغداد Baġdād) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. It is the second-largest city in southwest Asia (after Tehran) and the second-largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo). With an estimated population of seven million, it is the largest city in Iraq. Full Article
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Iraqis strole in the Zawra Park in central Baghdad where people are gathering to enjoy the fun fair rides and other attractions as they celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan, on September 21, 2009.
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Baghdad September 15, 2009. Biden arrived in Iraq on an unannounced visit on Tuesday to keep up U.S. pressure on Iraq's leaders to reach political compromises on thorny issues as U.S. combat troops prepare to go home.
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The governor of Baghdad, Salah Abed Razak, speaks to the press as he holds up a picture of a Muslim religious book used to hide a bomb at the governorate in central Baghdad, on September 13, 2009.
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A housekeeper dusts a chair at the desk of Al-Baghdadiya TV reporter Muntadhar al-Zeidi in preparation for his release from jail, for throwing his shoes at then U.S. President George W. Bush, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009.
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Iraqi Safaa Jalil, 24, who was wounded in a Baghdad bombing last month, arrives at a hospital in Kuwait City on September 3, 2009.
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Iraqi Kathmiya Natour, 54, who was wounded in a Baghdad bombing last month, arrives at a hospital in Kuwait City on September 3, 2009.
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Iraqi soldiers confiscate weapons after a raid operation in Baghdad, September 2, 2009.
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Iraqi policemen stand guard outside a bank in central Baghdad, Iraq, that was the site of a July robbery, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. A Baghdad court on Wednesday sentenced four members of Iraq's security forces to death for their roles in the bank heist that left eight bank guards dead.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks to reporters in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. In a bid to ease diplomatic tensions between his two neighbors, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu planned to meet leaders in Iraq and Syria later Monday.
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Mourners carry the coffin of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim in Baghdad, Iraq, during a two-day funeral procession Friday, Aug. 28, 2009.
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The no. 2 Syrian diplomat in Baghdad, Bassam Haj Hassan is seen during a meeting with Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister Labid Abbawi, not seen, to discuss Iraqi demands that Damascus turn over two purported Baathist operatives allegedly linked to last week's twin truck bombings, which stru...
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Iraqi policemen apprehend one of the two suspects in Baghdad August 25, 2009. Two suspects have been arrested after ransacking the house in an attack that left a father and his daughter dead and the mother seriously injured, police reported on Tuesday.
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Iraqi policemen apprehend one of the two suspects in Baghdad August 25, 2009. Two suspects have been arrested after ransacking the house in an attack that left a father and his daughter dead and the mother seriously injured, police reported on Tuesday.
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An Iraqi man wounded in Baghdad's recent blasts, gestures as he arrives in Amman aboard a Jordanian plane for medical treatment, at Marka Airport in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009. 19 employees of the ministry of foreign affairs wounded in the blasts will be treated at King Husse...
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Iraqis wounded recent blasts in Baghdad, arrive in Amman aboard a Jordanian plane for medical treatment, at Marka Airport in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009.
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Iraqis wounded in recent blasts in Baghdad, arrive in Amman aboard a Jordanian plane for medical treatment, at the Marka Airport in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009.
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The US Vice President Joe Biden briefs media in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009.
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The coalition plan effectively contained no detail once Baghdad and Basra had been taken and the regime removed
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Yes this is the new Baghdad. Iraq's face has changed for ever...
SOURCE: An Arab Woman's Blues -
The new structure not only provides a more efficient north-south traffic flow through the Baghdad Flight Information Region between Turkey and Kuwait, but provides Iraq with the opportunity of increased traffic growth in the future as east-west routes open after the implementation of reduced vertical se...
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Eighty per cent of [Iraqis] in Syria are from Baghdad and the situation there has not stabilised enough yet that families want to return
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We know that from New York, Bali, Baghdad, Madrid, Mumbai, Peshawar and Rawalpindi to London, men and women -- Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, of every faith and none -- have been victims of international terrorism
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The transition of partnership between the Panthers and commandos with our ISF partners is a renewal of the friendship and commitment of the American people to the people of east Baghdad and the Mada'in
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It has also drawn a controversy. Blackwater employees hired to guard American diplomats in Iraq were accused of using excessive force on several occasions, including shootings in Baghdad in 2007 in which 17 civilians were killed. Iraqi officials have since refused to give the company an operating licenc...
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British Airways and Iraqi Airways will have direct flights to Baghdad from Heathrow next year, and tourists are already trickling in ... But this isn't about planeloads, yet. It's about five, ten years ahead. We plan now, so we can reap the peace dividend when it comes.
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What we can do here ... is entice the Marsh Arabs to return to their traditional homes and lifestyles instead of rotting in the fetid slums and squatter camps around Basra and Baghdad.
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In general, plurality and choice is good for democracy but in the Kurdish context, and Iraq, it presents disadvantages because the region is in a strained position with Baghdad
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the entire distance from East to West from Xian, the capital of China, to Baghdad, the heart of the Islamic world.
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They want peace, regret the past,' he says From Bat-Yam to Baghdad: Israeli engineer Alex Shapira, an advisor for business and energy development, was sent to Iraq by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and has managed to cultivate close friendships with officials in the local...
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I came to Iraq three days after Saddam Hussein fled Baghdad. It was April 12, 2003. At the time, Iraqis bristled when asked if they were Sunni, Shiite or Kurd. It made no difference, they said, they were brothers. And, in the heady aftermath of the war, for a short while it almost seemed true.
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Nathanael Bodon of Marlboro is a specialist in the Army Reserve stationed in Baghdad, Iraq. He has been in the reserves for about a year-and-a-half and in Iraq for some four months. The Army found out about Bodon when a fellow soldier found his blog with a picture of him kissing a former boyfriend and t...
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Especially those men and women in uniform on the frontlines of freedom in places like Bosnia and Baghdad …
SOURCE: Michael Moore - This Just In -
It has been identified as one of those sites that have been an easy target for looters over the years because of close proximity to Baghdad and because of turbulence in Iraq's history ... We're working with the Ministry to secure the site for preservation and future excavation. It's important for the Ir...
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On behalf of Baghdad's mayor, the deputy head of the mayoralty's department for municipal affairs, Eng. Naeem al-Kuaibi, has laid the cornerstone for two sewage treatment projects in Baghdad during a celebration attended by the chairman of Baghdad's provincial council, Kamel al-Zaidi, the Belgian ambass...
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The last thing they had heard was that he was going into action near Baghdad ... It really brings it home to you how thousands of households were going through the same thing.
– Paul Nash SOURCE: The Birmingham Mail -
In the last decade, in hundreds of attacks across the world, al-Qaeda and those associated or inspired by them have killed thousands. These victims were Muslim, Christian, Jewish, of every faith and none. This is a reality all the world has witnessed – in New York, Bali, Baghdad, Madrid, Mumbai, Rawalpi...
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Everything that happens in Baghdad or Mosul by the sectarian Shiite groups is all tied to Iran – you have to cut the threads that tie them, and almost all of them start here
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Me, an Englishman with an Irish group in Belfast, it was like Baghdad. * I got out with my legs, my life, they blew up the hotel after I left.
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The minister held a meeting with British Ambassador in Baghdad Christopher Prentice, during which he asserted the 2010 budget will support the investment sector and will contribute in improving the constructional reality in Iraq
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Anyone inclined to put Iraq in the nation’s rearview mirror is simply deluded. Not long ago, General Raymond Odierno, Petraeus’s successor and the fifth U.S. commander in Baghdad, expressed the view that the insurgency in Iraq is likely to drag on for another five, ten, or fifteen years. Events may well...
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Life has returned to a semblance of normality in Baghdad and other areas. A few high-profile attacks — this one or the one in August — do not change the fundamental, day-to-day reality of life getting better.
– Max Boot SOURCE: at-Largely
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