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Babak Dehghanpisheh
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Apr 29, 2007 11:12 AM
The rumbling explosions started early this morning. Boom. Boom. Pause. Boom. Boom. Boom. And continued for about half an hour or so. It's not uncommon to get this sort of a wakeup call in Baghdad these days but a sustained barrage is rare. In general,...
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Babak Dehghanpisheh
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Apr 23, 2007 03:44 PM
The controversy "and confusion "continues. First, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki told a news conference in Egypt yesterday that the building of the Adhamiya wall would be stopped. Then Ryan Crocker, the new U.S. ambassador to Baghdad, tried to clear...
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Babak Dehghanpisheh
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Apr 22, 2007 05:21 PM
American soldiers have jokingly dubbed it the "Great Wall of Adhamiya" but they may as well call it a lightning rod. In recent days, a controversy has broken out over the latest American military effort to curb sectarian violence in Baghdad: a three-mile...
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Babak Dehghanpisheh
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Apr 18, 2007 04:34 PM
The news broadcast on the Iraqiya channel seemed all too familiar: gunshots, civilian victims and grieving families. But this time it wasn't Iraq. Over the past couple of days, many residents here have tried to figure out what to make of the vicious shooting...
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Babak Dehghanpisheh
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Apr 15, 2007 02:59 PM
The two trips were only a couple of weeks apart, but the message couldn't have been more different. Republican Chuck Hagel passed through Baghdad today, following a much-blogged about visit by fellow Republican John McCain on April Fool's day. Unlike...
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Babak Dehghanpisheh
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Apr 12, 2007 05:04 PM
Ali Mayali was having lunch with two fellow Iraqi parliamentarians this afternoon when the blast rocked the building. "It was a great explosion," says Mayali, holding a gauze bandage to his left temple shortly after the blast. "I saw many fall on the...
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Babak Dehghanpisheh
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Apr 9, 2007 05:19 PM
Baghdad, April 9, 2007: We all know it wasn't supposed to turn out this way. Tens of thousands of Shiites, the one group in Iraq that many observers thought would welcome the American invasion, marched through the streets of the holy city of Najaf holding...
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Babak Dehghanpisheh
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Apr 6, 2007 07:03 AM
Iranian and American officials are more accustomed to exchanging barbs through the media than engaging in meaningful dialogue. So it was no small feat when Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari got representatives from both countries talking face to face...
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Babak Dehghanpisheh
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Apr 3, 2007 04:40 PM
Jalal Sharafi, the second secretary at the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, turned up today almost as mysteriously as he disappeared two months ago. The news was reported by IRNA, the official Iranian news agency, but the embassy in Baghdad refused to confirm...
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Babak Dehghanpisheh
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Apr 1, 2007 03:50 PM
Baghdad, April 1, 2007 . It wasn't your typical Sunday stroll. A Republican congressional delegation led by Sen. John McCain popped by the Shorja market in Baghdad this afternoon, a stop on an unannounced Iraq trip. They spent over an hour browsing market...
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