in the eye of the sandstorm

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/20388a0f-09ad-4792-94f6-56e239dc3aee/BB0EAE0C-9915-4DA3-8A71-EB456A15C4A1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/in-the-eye-of-the-sandstorm/" href="http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/in-the-eye-of-the-sandstorm/" style="font-size: 11px;">inthefield.blogs.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/in-the-eye-of-the-sandstorm/"><P><STRONG>BAGHDAD, Iraq</STRONG> — I knew something was strange as soon as I woke up. An eerie yellow haze at the window instead of the morning sun. I climbed up to the roof and looked out over Baghdad toward the blue Bunyah mosque. It had disappeared behind a thick curtain of microscopic dust.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/in-the-eye-of-the-sandstorm/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/img/88B3BD2A-CBFB-4BC5-B335-066406EF7F12" alt="Dust clouds the air over Baghdad." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/in-the-eye-of-the-sandstorm/"><P>We were about to leave to shoot a report on an Iraqi paralympic competition. “They can’t go ahead with it!” I thought.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/in-the-eye-of-the-sandstorm/"><P>When we called, however, they said it was still on. So we piled into our car and set off for the running track.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/in-the-eye-of-the-sandstorm/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/img/699F3833-B92B-4C5E-9620-04E5F76BEA17" alt="Paralympic athletes train on, despite the dust." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/in-the-eye-of-the-sandstorm/"><P>At the running track the athletes were arriving, some missing legs, or arms. Many are victims of the war. In the distance, a loud explosion roared. The athletes and their friends muttered but quickly returned to more important things. Bombs, sandstorms - it’s a nuisance but nothing that will stop them from competing.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/in-the-eye-of-the-sandstorm/"><P>But the storm, the worst in years, did shut down Baghdad Airport. The helicopters that roar every few minutes through the skies of the capital were grounded.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BB0EAE0C-9915-4DA3-8A71-EB456A15C4A1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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