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Iraq Bombings Threaten to Renew Chaos

5:41 PM, April 24, 2009 | Comments (13)
An Iraqi talk show anchor planned to spend his hour today talking about the recent robbery and shooting spree against jewelry store owners. But after the third bombing with massive casualties in two days, he changed the subject. Here’s a sample of the...

Some Iraqis Support Tough Shoe-Thrower Sentence

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Rebuilding Baghdad's Infamous Airport Road

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  • Counting the Bombs

    Rod Nordland | Feb 28, 2007 12:00 AM
    By noon today we'd been body-searched nine times, and car-searched twice, spent a cumulative total of 1 1/2 hours in checkpoint queues or waiting to be searched, and another half hour trying to find escorts who would take us through checkpoints. We managed... More
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  • In Hell's Forecourt

    Rod Nordland | Feb 27, 2007 12:00 AM
    Amman, Jordan: Hell's Forecourt, we call it; the place you wait until the moment you have to go face the devil. There are other ways in to Baghdad now, but most involve Iraqi Airways, long flights from Istanbul and Dubai, or shorter ones from Damascus.... More
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