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Lights sign of hope in Iraq
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RECOVERY:
Baghdad slowly returns to normal as the U.S. postwar administrator
visits the capital. A top Hussein aide is arrested.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq _ Glimmers of a new Iraq were evident Monday, as the
American charged with rebuilding a ravaged country came to Baghdad,
and Muslim multitudes converged on holy cities for a ritual long
suppressed by Saddam Hussein's regime.
But the work of rooting out the old Iraq went on. Military
officials announced th...
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