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Iraqi childen sit on the steps of an American MRAP Humvee in Sadr City

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Legal shops, Beida market

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Squatter shop owner, Beida

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Squatter shop, Beida

Someone left a dismantled bus in front of his house around the corner. At first glance I thought the bus had been destroyed by a bomb.

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Sadr City

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Park, Sadr City

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Iraqi women, Sadr City

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Iraqi boy, Sadr City

“I get a kick out of the sign over the door to his building,” Captain Rusch told me as we walked across campus.


“What does it say?” I said.


“You'll see,” he said and laughed. “You can't miss it.”


I saw it on the way in.

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“The Deanery!” he said. “As if it's a dean-manufacturing factory.”


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Dr. Ali J. Al Obedi, Dean of the Administration and Economics College at Mustansiriya University

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Captain Todd Allison

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Students, Mustansiriya University

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Students at a cafe, Mustansiriya University

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Students, Mustansiriya University

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Sergeant Kincaid, Sadr City

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Captain A.J. Boyes

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Captain Todd Looney (left)