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Excerpts from story. My emphasis. Link to entire story below.
" In the last week this city has seen 22 car bombs, with 10 on a single day - last Friday. Not far from Baghdad, at Musayyib, between Hilla and Karbala, nearly 100 Shia Muslims were killed."
and
"In the months after the US-led invasion of Iraq we used to drive up that road to get to Baghdad. By the beginning of 2004 that was already becoming much too dangerous, and we had to fly."
and
"I visit Baghdad at least four times a year, to see how things are developing. Since the fall of Saddam in May 2003, and the capture of Baghdad, after which major operations were declared over, I have been here eleven times. Each time the security situation has been markedly worse than the time before."
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"The casualty figures mean that on average as many people are now dying here every day as were killed in the London bombings nearly two weeks ago. It has become a civil war, fought out with car bombs and shots to the head, while the foreign forces, US and British and the rest, look on, incapable of stopping it. This isn't how things were supposed to turn out here."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4692881.stm
" In the last week this city has seen 22 car bombs, with 10 on a single day - last Friday. Not far from Baghdad, at Musayyib, between Hilla and Karbala, nearly 100 Shia Muslims were killed."
and
"In the months after the US-led invasion of Iraq we used to drive up that road to get to Baghdad. By the beginning of 2004 that was already becoming much too dangerous, and we had to fly."
and
"I visit Baghdad at least four times a year, to see how things are developing. Since the fall of Saddam in May 2003, and the capture of Baghdad, after which major operations were declared over, I have been here eleven times. Each time the security situation has been markedly worse than the time before."
and
"The casualty figures mean that on average as many people are now dying here every day as were killed in the London bombings nearly two weeks ago. It has become a civil war, fought out with car bombs and shots to the head, while the foreign forces, US and British and the rest, look on, incapable of stopping it. This isn't how things were supposed to turn out here."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4692881.stm
