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The militiamen who guard the campus are a most divisive issue. While Sunnis like Duleimi see them as a threat, many Shiites are grateful for their presence. In January, two car bombs and a suicide bomber killed more than 70 people and wounded approximately 170 at Mustansiriya. One month later, a female suicide bomber hit the College of Economy and Administration and killed at least 40 people. Attacks across Baghdad are down recently. But Iraqis' defensive barriers—both physical and mental—are not going away soon.

With Silvia Spring and Iraqi staff In Baghdad

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  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 08/11/2009 11:07:16 PM

    you are absolutely right. You have just described the foundation of the KARL ROVE/BUSH DOCTRINE. THEY USED 9\11 as an excuse to lead us into the greatest catastrophe of this century so FAR. IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. LOOK AT THE MESS WE HAVE MADE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THOSE PEOPLE HATE US and we have killed Hundreds of thousands. WORST OF ALL WE SENT OUR YOUNG TO DIE FOR WHAT SO IRAQ CAN HAVE A CORRUPT REGIME UNDER THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY. LOOK AT AFGHANISTAN. THe GOVERNMENT THERE IS SO CORRUPT and so inefficient that we are now in a greater mess than we were before. IT IS JUST ALL WRONG. YOUNG AMERICANS ARE DYING SO HALLIBURTON COULD PROSPER AND MAKE BILLIONS. CHENEY ROVE RUMSFIELD; THESE GUYS ARE SO EVIL AND SO TWISTED; USING BIBLE QUOTES in the name of war. THE CLOSEST THING TO NAZI'S a NAzi regime we have ever seen.

  • Posted By: Sonia4Him @ 01/14/2008 10:52:20 AM

    I AGREE WITH CARAMIA'S COMENT. EDUCATION IS A MUST. AND I WILL LOOK UP THAT MOVIE "OBSESSION: ISLAMS WAR ON THE WEST". BUT ISLAMS IS NOT ONLY WITH THE WEST, IT IS WITH ANYONE, EVEN THEIR OWN PEOPLE WHO WANT PEACE OR EQUALITY AND FREED OM FOR ALL PEOPLE. I TOO PRAY FOR PEACE IN THE MIDEAST, AFGHAN, IRAQ AND ALL THOSE MUSLIM CONTROLLED COUNTRIES WHO BRAIN WASH THEIR OWN COUNTRYMEN WITH HATRED AND KILLING.
    GOD BLESS THEM ALL AND ONCE AGAIN I FERVANTLY PRAY FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE.

  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 11/12/2007 8:33:05 PM

    Let them kill each other and do whatever they want with their universities and country, why bother? We have got our own problems, why worry about others? All outsiders must get out of Iraq and I mean all.Once they are tired of killing each other, then they will stop.

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