Life returns to Baghdad's streets as violence falls


	Life returns to Baghdad's streets as violence falls

jatfla

11-18-2007 10:33 AM

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iraq, peace, baghdad

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Some good news...and it's popping up everywhere.

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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/c14df59b-4c4b-4af1-a0ef-b4751c7d080b/E62D113C-E98F-40C5-A78D-5D6136D5333B/" 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://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-baghdad_slynov18,1,2846076.story" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-baghdad_slynov18,1,2846076.story" style="font-size: 11px;">www.chicagotribune.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-baghdad_slynov18,1,2846076.story"><H1>Life returns to Baghdad's streets as violence falls</H1></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://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-baghdad_slynov18,1,2846076.story">     Since the last soldiers of the "surge" deployed last May, Baghdad has  undergone a remarkable transformation.</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://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-baghdad_slynov18,1,2846076.story">
No longer do the streets empty at dusk.</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://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-baghdad_slynov18,1,2846076.story">  Children play in parks, young women stay out after dark, restaurants are  filled with families and old men sit at sidewalk cafes playing backgammon and  smoking  shisha  pipes.</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://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-baghdad_slynov18,1,2846076.story">
"I used to close my shop at 6 p.m. but now I stay open till 9 or 9:30. Then  I walk home and I feel completely safe," said Jawad al-Sufi</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://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-baghdad_slynov18,1,2846076.story">
"It happened very suddenly," he said.</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://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-baghdad_slynov18,1,2846076.story">
Far more significant than the increased troop presence, officials say, is  the revolt that has taken place within Sunni neighborhoods against Al Qaeda in  Iraq.</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://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-baghdad_slynov18,1,2846076.story">
"[Al] Qaeda has been defeated completely. And soon they will cease  operating completely,"  Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf,  the Interior Ministry  spokesman,</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://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-baghdad_slynov18,1,2846076.story">They will  not have a safe home here anymore."</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/E62D113C-E98F-40C5-A78D-5D6136D5333B/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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