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Beyond Fallujah: A roundup of the past two weeks' good news from Iraq
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| Contributor | Tony82 |
| Last Edited | Tony82 Nov 23, 2004 04:27pm |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 23, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In the fortnight that saw the massive assault by American and Iraqi troops on Fallujah, the flare-up of violence elsewhere in the Sunni Triangle and the murder of Margaret Hassan by her kidnappers, not to mention the controversy over a Marine shooting dead a wounded insurgent, it's hard to believe that anything positive might have also been happening in Iraq.
Yet neither Fallujah nor the Sunni Triangle is the whole of Iraq, just as violence and bloodshed are not the whole story of Iraq. Lt. Col. Victor Zillmer of Lindale, Texas, recently volunteered to return to Iraq as the commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Baghdad. His impressions of the country today seems to be shared by many in Iraq outside the media:
As the old joke goes, sometimes a cigar is just cigar. In Iraq, contrary to the impression one can often get from watching the news, for most part a car is just car, not a car bomb, and, as Col. Zillmer says, there are a lot of them driving around. Here are some stories of Iraqis trying, often under difficult circumstance and against great odds, to make the journey toward a better and more normal life. |
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