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	Life in Baquba

katsteevns

3-11-2008 4:23 AM

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3-14-2008 10:29 AM

tanyamm

As I've said before, it's always the children who suffer the most.

3-14-2008 8:36 PM

katsteevns

One million dead in Iraq since 2003 according to a recent British study.

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	<H2>As Fifth Anniversary of Invasion Approaches, Iraqis Ask, ‘Where Is The Happiness?’</H2>
	<DIV class="post-credit">by Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/07/7549/"><P>BAQUBA - After losing sight of what they knew to be normal life, residents across Baquba seem to have fallen into a depression.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/07/7549/"><P>Children are forgetting the joy of what were the big days for them. “Before the invasion, streets were full on festival days with children playing and families walking about,” Abdul-Kareem Faraj, a 44-year-old who once owned a sweets shop told IPS. “This occupation has killed the happiness of children.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/07/7549/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.commondreams.org/img/47F023AE-8B6B-4A20-B0CB-5610A3C5FC6C" alt="0307 08" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/07/7549/"><P>Feasting has always been a strong Iraqi tradition. Even during the economic sanctions of the 1990s, when food was scarce, Iraqis kept up this tradition, particularly on Fridays.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/07/7549/"><P>The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced in January that Iraqi refuges in Syria are “suffering from extreme levels of trauma.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7C862AE6-9EFA-4E1D-B26D-0E476CF9D983/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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