The Return Of Thousands Of Baghdad Residents


	The Return Of Thousands Of Baghdad Residents

merrie

11-3-2007 6:18 PM

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awakening council, sunni tribes, mahdi army, al-sadr, aqi

merrie says:

They fled to Syria six months ago, leaving behind what had become one of the capital's more dangerous districts — west Baghdad's largely Sunni Khadra region. They had been living inside a vicious and bloody turf battle between al-Qaeda in Iraq and Mahdi Army militiamen.

Azawi said things began changing, becoming more peaceful, in August when radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to stand down nationwide

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11-4-2007 10:52 AM

davboz

We-he-e-e-l-ll-lll Now !
I wonder what page this was on in the print copy. Pg.6?
Oh well.

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