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Christmas is back on cards in Baghdad
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IRAQI CHRISTIANS who fled a district of Baghdad that declared
itself an al-Qaeda caliphate have returned home to celebrate their
first Christmas in two years.
Known as the "Vatican of Iraq", the small but long-established
Christian enclave in the mainly Sunni Muslim district of Doura
suffered constant terror at the hands of al-Qaeda gunmen who tried
to impose a Taliban-style rule.
Churches were car-bombed, women were threatened for not wearing
Islamic headscarves, and families ha...
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Soldiers in Baghdad long for home more at Christmas.
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