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Love blooms in Baghdad
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" /></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.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-07-06-iraq-park_N.htm?csp=34">Many of the couples sneak away from university lectures and sit arm-in-arm, whispering and kissing under the shade of eucalyptus trees each morning. On many days, there's not a single empty bench.</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.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-07-06-iraq-park_N.htm?csp=34"><P class="inside-copy">Four checkpoints manned by guards from the Sandi Group security company control access to Abu Nawas Park. Every car is searched. Anyone with a gun, including Iraqi police, is kept out.</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.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-07-06-iraq-park_N.htm?csp=34"><P class="inside-copy">For some of Iraq's conservatives, the park is a symbol of the poisonous effect the U.S. occupation is having on Iraq. 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