Profile: City of Baghdad

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Profile: City of Baghdad

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL, MICHELE NORRIS Time: 9:00-10:00 PM

ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

We were talking about Baghdad, and today we went looking for some sense of what Baghdad is like. It's hard to find an exact analogy to a US city--maybe Phoenix would fit if the Salt River flowed right through the city rather than nearby; a big city plopped down in the desert with a smattering of high-rise offices and hotels, and mostly low-lying residential neighborhoods.

MICHELE NORRIS, host:

Baghdad, like Phoenix, is spread out, but the Iraqi ...

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