Aseel Kami
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/ 9 December 2007

After a bombing, retail therapy in Baghdad

I knew it would be fine when Isam, my perfume man, wanted for a bottle of J’Adore. I had thought I would find him dead. The wooden sign with the name of his shop was in splinters and the front window had been blown out the night before by the worst bombing in Baghdad in more than two months.

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/ 21 October 2007

At least 13 killed in US Baghdad strikes

United States air strikes killed at least 13 people and wounded 52 early on Sunday in the north-eastern Baghdad district of Sadr city, a stronghold for Shi’ite militants, police sources said. The US military said it was ”targeting criminals believed to be responsible for the kidnapping of coalition soldiers in November 2006 and May 2007”.

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/ 9 October 2007

Car bombs kill 22 in northern Iraq

Two suicide car bombs killed at least 22 people in northern Iraq on Tuesday in attacks targeting a police chief and a Sunni Arab tribal leader working with United States forces to fight al-Qaeda, police said. ”Look at this. Is this acceptable? Does God accept this?” said a youth hold ing torn, blood-splattered pages of the Qu’ran.

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/ 5 March 2007

Car bomb kills 26 in Baghdad book district

A car bomb ripped through Baghdad’s booksellers’ district on Monday, killing 26 people and setting shops and cars ablaze on the street and sending out choking black smoke that hampered rescue efforts. Iraqi and US forces are in the third week of a major security crackdown in Baghdad aimed at stemming sectarian violence.

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/ 22 January 2007

Day of death as bombs rock Baghdad

Two car bombs ripped through a busy market in Baghdad on Monday, killing 88 people in fresh violence of the kind that United States and Iraqi forces plan to target in a new offensive in the lawless capital. Hours later, at least 14 people were killed and 40 wounded when a bomb exploded in a town near Baquba, north-east of Baghdad, police sources said.

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/ 22 January 2007

Car bombs kill 75 in crowded Baghdad market

Two simultaneous car bombs blasted a busy market in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 75 people in fresh violence that came as Iraqis awaited the start of a planned United States-backed offensive in the capital. After a relative lull in violence in the capital at the weekend, the car bombs exploded barely a second apart in a market for second-hand goods.