It has, for many months now, had the feel of a normal Arab capital. Families picnicking on street verges at dusk. Children playing football in the street. Marketplaces teeming with shoppers and touts.
But today, just after 10.30am, a series of sharp and violent explosions hammered home just how relative normality is in Baghdad. By the [...]
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Six bombs, 95 dead in Iraq bombs
News Aug 20, 2009Six bombs, 95 dead – carnage and despair return to Iraq
News Aug 20, 2009It has, for many months now, had the feel of a normal Arab capital. Families picnicking on street verges at dusk. Children playing football in the street. Marketplaces teeming with shoppers and touts.
But today, just after 10.30am, a series of sharp and violent explosions hammered home just how relative normality is in Baghdad. By the [...]