Iraqis hoping for football glory
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Iraq's footballers get a morale-boosting chance for gold at the Asian Games in Friday's final against Qatar.
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Iraq&#39;s Munir Qusai evades a tackle from Australia&#39;s Anthony Danze in Iraq&#39;s 1-0 victory. Photos: AP.s. From the ashes of war-torn Iraq an unlikely Phoenix is rising.
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It&#39;s touted as the safest place in Baghdad, but even the thousands of normal Iraqis whose homes wound up in the US-occupied Green Zone want
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The Iraqi fans&#39; bus ride from Athens to Kaftanzoglio Stadium took eight hours. But at least that was better than the trip to Crete last weekend to see their team play.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on a surprise visit to Baghdad Tuesday, has expressed hope that all Iraqis will take part in next month&#39;s elections.
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A group of Liverpool supporters are trying to succeed where the financial might of Dubai International Capital (DIC) has so far failed and buy their beloved club from its American owners.
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In a match pitting Iraq against Iran, our reporter wades into the stands to find Sunnis and Shiites united.
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An Iraqi soccer star can't sign with a professional British club because Iraq's Asian Cup-winning national team barely missed being ranked in the world's top 70 Â a situation blamed partly on violence in the country.
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The country isn't ready for another football league.
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BAQUBAH, Iraq -- Inside the festival hall, on long tables covered with white cloth, Aboud Ahdim Abbas Mohammad saw a glimpse of the future: baskets filled with different kinds of ripe, delicious dates. They held the twin promise of reviving an ancient industry and Iraq's devastated economy.
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With only two months to go until Iraq&#39;s general elections, the local government has yet to devise a plan for registering voters in one of the country&#39;s largest cities.
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A correspondent who often visits the popular Mutanabi market finds it to be a useful gauge of hope in the Iraqi capital.
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PRINCETON, New Jersey &#39;Everyone wants to go to Baghdad; real men want to go to Tehran.&quot; That was the attitude in Washington two years ago, when Ahmad Chalabi was assuring everyone that Iraqis would greet US troops with flowers.
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A group of Liverpool supporters is trying to succeed where the financial might of Dubai International Capital has so far failed and buy their beloved club from its American owners.
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Qatar beats Iraq at the Asian Games, in the first football final reached by the Iraqi team for 24 years.
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The Kurdish leader who hopes to become Iraq's next president pledged to try to bring the country's disaffected Sunni Arabs into the political process even though many of them stayed away from the polls in landmark elections.
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&quot;It will be positive to hold Iraqi elections on time ... and protect the interests of all political, ethnic and sectarian. their own significant Shi&#39;ite populations could demand more influence.