<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9fa2b1c4-9ce1-424c-acc1-674bd39f798c/A1AE2264-38C6-423D-8D72-F00D6E9C5037/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php" href="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.michaeltotten.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><CENTER><IMG src="http://www.michaeltotten.com/images/Four%20Children%20on%20MRAP%20Sadr%20City.jpg" alt="Four Children on MRAP Sadr City.jpg" /></CENTER> <CENTER><I>Iraqi childen sit on the steps of an American <SPAN class="caps">MRAP</SPAN> Humvee in Sadr City</I></CENTER></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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><CENTER><IMG src="http://www.michaeltotten.com/images/Real%20Shops%20Beida%20Market.jpg" alt="Real Shops Beida Market.jpg" /></CENTER> <CENTER><I>Legal shops, Beida market</I></CENTER></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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><CENTER><IMG src="http://www.michaeltotten.com/images/Shoe%20Salesman%20Beida%20Market.jpg" alt="Shoe Salesman Beida Market.jpg" /></CENTER> <CENTER><I>Squatter shop owner, Beida</I></CENTER></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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><CENTER><IMG src="http://www.michaeltotten.com/images/Squatter%20Shoe%20Shop%20Beida%20Market.jpg" alt="Squatter Shoe Shop Beida Market.jpg" /></CENTER> <CENTER><I>Squatter shop, Beida</I></CENTER></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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><P>Someone left a dismantled bus in front of his house around the corner. At first glance I thought the bus had been destroyed by a bomb.</p> <P></P><CENTER><IMG src="http://www.michaeltotten.com/images/Dismantled%20Bus%20Beida.jpg" alt="Dismantled Bus Beida.jpg" /></CENTER></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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><CENTER><IMG src="http://www.michaeltotten.com/images/Long%20Street%20Sadr%20City%202.jpg" alt="Long Street Sadr City 2.jpg" /></CENTER> <CENTER><I>Sadr City</I></CENTER></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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><CENTER><IMG src="http://www.michaeltotten.com/images/Park%20Sadr%20City.jpg" alt="Park Sadr City.jpg" /></CENTER> <CENTER><I>Park, Sadr City</I></CENTER></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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><CENTER><IMG src="http://www.michaeltotten.com/images/Two%20Covered%20Women%20Sadr%20City.jpg" alt="Two Covered Women Sadr City.jpg" /></CENTER> <CENTER><I>Iraqi women, Sadr City</I></CENTER></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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><CENTER><IMG src="http://www.michaeltotten.com/images/Boy%20Behind%20Barrier%20Sadr%20City.jpg" alt="Boy Behind Barrier Sadr City.jpg" /></CENTER> <CENTER><I>Iraqi boy, Sadr City</I></CENTER></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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><P>“I get a kick out of the sign over the door to his building,” Captain Rusch told me as we walked across campus.</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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><P>“What does it say?” I said. </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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><P>“You'll see,” he said and laughed. “You can't miss it.”</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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><P>I saw it on the way in. </p> <P></P><CENTER><IMG src="http://www.michaeltotten.com/images/Deanery%20Baghdad.jpg" alt="Deanery Baghdad.jpg" /></CENTER></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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><P>“The Deanery!” he said. “As if it's a dean-manufacturing factory.”</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.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/04/sadr-city-after.php"><CENTER><IMG src="http://www.michaeltotten.com/images/Dean%20Obedi%20Baghdad.jpg" alt="Dean Obedi Baghdad.jpg" /></CENTER> <CENTER><I>Dr. Ali J. 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