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Good Times Roll at Baghdad Club

9:54 AM, August 13, 2008 | Comments (0)

By Lennox Samuels It is mid-afternoon on a Friday and the noise level is rising in Al-Wiyah Club, as urbane Baghdadis walk in and stake out their places at coveted dinner tables. Men seated at the legendary teak bar smoke, drink and call out affable greetings...

'They're in Good Hands': Inside the Hospital at Iraq's Balad Air Base

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Iraq Violence Stats Update

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VOICES OF THE FALLEN

The War In the Words of the Dead

Jon Meacham

Read our complete series on the war in Iraq, told through the letters home from men and women who died in the line of duty

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Seatbelts and Shakedowns: Security, Baghdad Style

Larry Kaplow | Jun 6, 2008 03:19 PM

It’s always been a good idea to wear seatbelts in the capital’s chaotic and obstacle-strewn streets. But whenever I’ve started to buckle in my Iraqi colleagues would warn me off it. Baghdadis don’t wear seatbelts, so the danger of showing myself as a... More

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Tony Hopfinger

For decades, tiny Barrow, Alaska, has been largely unknown and unnoticed. But with increasing global activity in the Arctic--especially from oil speculators--things are changing … fast.