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| A year on, America in shock in Iraq |
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One year ago, I walked down an empty stretch of Sadoun Street towards the pointed gun barrels of US Marines who had just reached the centre of Baghdad. Perhaps it was dangerous, but I felt only relief and elation. The arrival of the Marines meant the 21-day war was over, and Iraq would have the pos
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| Shine on lips, terror in air |
| The sun blazed down on the motorcade as it snaked through the ridges and round the sharp bends, but fear hung like a brooding mist on the hundreds of gun-toting jawans. ... |
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| India Shining? Shoeshine boy walks the talk |
| Thwack, bang, thwack, bang… goes the cobbler’s brush on his wooden box, beckoning weary travellers with dusty shoes. No screaming, no hollering, just rhythmic beating of boxes: thwack, bang, thwack, bang… ... |
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Alliance to reliance
Weakened partners follow the leader meekly
Six years of marriage with the BJP has shown its allies who wears the trousers in the National Democratic Alliance. ... | Read.. |
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| An Iraqi celebrates in front of a burning US tanker which was part of a military convoy attacked on Friday in Abu Gharib. (AFP) |
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The lid of the pressure cooker has come off (in Iraq)
JACK STRAW
UK foreign secretary
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