Residents of a Baghdad district afraid to return

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Residents of a Baghdad district afraid to return

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Once considered a bastion of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Baghdad district of al-Doura is now called "victory neighbourhood", where attacks are rare. But as the US military prepares to withdraw from Iraqi cities, al-Doura remains a maze of cement walls built to enforce security and keep Shia militias out.

As Al Jazeera English's Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports, former residents say they are hesitant to return until al-Doura becomes the multi-religious district it once was.

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Fri Jun-26-09 02:51 PM
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1. Its a Wonderful Life -- The Alternate Ending

The product of Bush's failed policy and General Betrayus's feeble attempt to place a band aid on the bullet wound.

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quoddy woman

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Fri Jun-26-09 05:00 PM
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2. Baghdad bummer

Can you imagine your neighborhood like that? So totally destroyed, lives in tatters. And now we are just going off, oops, sorry? What should we do, or can we do, and how do we do it? What, if any, is our part in this ? Big questions, I know.....let's just do Michael Jackson instead

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