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August 21, 2007

Baghdad – Bombed into the Past

Filed under: Uncategorized — Bart @ 5:53 pm

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20326315/site/newsweek/

Now, with his former livelihood in ashes and his college degree in Arabic languages all but useless, he makes ends meet the same way his father did nearly half a century ago—as a boatman on the Tigris River. The boat itself is the very one that his father operated when Ritha was just a baby. Now it’s Ritha who ferries passengers back and forth across the river, past the ruins of bridges that used to be heavy with traffic. Corpses drift with the current, many of them bound and blindfolded, and the sight of them horrifies Ritha.
But every time insurgents blow up another bridge, his ferry business gets busier.

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