City of Walls
Americans seem to have bought into the idea that the "surge" is working, but this Baghdad journalist returned home to a city of walls and bloodshed.Americans seem to have bought into the idea that the “surge” is working, but this Baghdad journalist returned home to a city of walls and bloodshed.
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