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The US government is trumpeting the fact that violence is going down in Iraq; that Bush’s ’surge’ has worked. The Iraqi government is boasting that the situation in the country has improved so much that those Iraqis who had fled from Iraq are...
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Location: Al-Sadr hospital, Sadr City, Baghdad.
Date: Sat May 3, 2008.
Time: Approximately 10 am local time (0700 GMT).
A US rocket attack blasts its way down and...
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Violence in Iraq excels the imagination of a sane mind and I wonder, what will be the pinnacle of misery other than one that Iraqis are going through. Perhaps,...
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