Sadr City Residents Fear A Cease-Fire Means More Violence


	Sadr City Residents Fear A Cease-Fire Means More Violence

papananook

5-12-2008 6:21 PM

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papananook says:

Imaine if you had to live in this kind of fear in yyour town...USA needs to end the occupation and air strikes now.

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