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Baghdad Starts to Exhale as Security Improves
BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 Five months ago, Suhaila al-Aasan lived in an oxygen tank factory with her husband and two sons, convinced that they would never go back to their apartment in Dora, a middle-class neighborhood in southern Baghdad.Today she is home again, cooking by a sunlit window, sleeping beneath her favorite wedding picture. And yet, she and her family are remarkably alone. The half-dozen other apartments in her building echo with emptiness and, on most days, Iraqi soldiers are the only neighbors she sees. I feel happy, she said, standing in her bedroom, between a flowered bedspread and a bullet hole in the wall. But my happiness is not complete. We need more people to come back. We need more people to feel safe. Posted by: Delphi 2007-11-20 |
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