Dreams of bombs, bad guys haunt Baghdad's children
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Iraqi children are haunted by dreams of bad guys wielding knives or kidnapping relatives. For some, like 13-year-old Zaman, the nightmares become reality. She was abducted, beaten and threatened with rape.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 10 -- A few blocks from Ali Farouk's three-story home, an empty house provides a glimpse of what he fears will be the future. Once owned by a Sunni Muslim, the paint is peeling, the windows are blown out. Two scarlet X's mark the pale blue front door. Rabiaa Street, a dusty,.........
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 6 -- The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq is training boys as young as 10 to kidnap and kill, U.S. and Iraqi officials asserted Wednesday, showing propaganda videos seized from suspected insurgent hideouts that depict masked boys wielding guns and kicking down doors.
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The children watched in amusement as United States soldiers dragged two burned-out tanks from Sadr City, the Baghdad slum whose Shi&#39;ite Muslim residents have been considered outcasts for decades.
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In aftermath of disaster, survivors of school siege recall the nightmare.
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News reports on Iraq paint a picture of a country trapped in a cycle of violence and destruction. The sceptics and nay-sayers don&#39;t believe Iraqis are ready for democracy.
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Keith Greene remembers the sandstorms, the swirling red clouds that left grit in everything. Joe Goellner recounts building schools for Iraqi children. Raffi Bahadarian describes fighting to help protect his comrades.
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"My son told me, 'Mom, I am afraid when   I go to school there will be an explosion,"' sighed Iqbal Safi,   bringing her six-year-old Ali to his first day at Jawad Salim   primary school in central Baghdad.
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It's the time of the year for the music world's Top 10 lists. Iraqis who wake and fall asleep to explosions and gunfire have something else to offer: The Top 10 distinctive sounds heard in Baghdad's daily life.
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Fed up with car bombs and   death threats, Lazem Hamid, an Iraqi doctor from one of   Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods, decided one day to pack   his bags and take his family north to Kurdistan.
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In a marker of the Iraq warâs longevity, children too young to remember losing a parent in action are growing up.
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A father's hunt for his sons' killers underscores the tortured politics of Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 25 -- Two bombs in separate Iraqi cities ripped through crowds of people Tuesday, causing some of the worst carnage in the country in recent weeks and revealing that -- despite the relative calm of recent months -- insurgent groups remain capable of devastating attacks.
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BAGHDAD -- Videotapes seized during U.S. raids on suspected al-Qaida in Iraq hide-outs show the terror group training young boys to kidnap and assassinate civilians, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Wednesday.
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Car bombs echo across Baghdad and a constellation of cities around Iraq nearly every day, inflicting slaughter and billowing oily smoke, a reminder to all who see or hear them that the country's insurgents can strike almost anywhere.
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An Iraqi orphan credited with helping American troops avoid attacks and find insurgents in Baghdad started a new life Tuesday at Girls and Boys Town, the storied home for troubled youngsters.
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Millions of Iraqi children were due to  start the new school year Saturday, but many stayed at home,  their parents too scared to let them venture out amid Iraq's  spiraling violence.