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The emir fled, and Baghdad set up a puppet regime, declaring the country a new region of Iraq.
Three civilians were killed and nine were wounded in one clash in Baghdad, set off by assassinations of two dignitaries.
Despite this, in 2008, a then 17-year-old Zuhal Sultan, a pianist from Baghdad, set about recruiting members for the country's first youth orchestra.
The bomb in Baghdad, set between a market and a police station, killed civilians passing by as they did their weekly shopping.
General Abizaid made clear in his testimony that the intelligence-gathering effort that he and Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the top American commander in Baghdad, set in motion late last summer had fallen short of its intended goal of getting a clear picture of the insurgency.
A New York Times/CBS News poll, based on interviews Thursday through Saturday, shows that Americans' expectations have been rising as they watched, read and listened to accounts of wide swaths of Baghdad set ablaze by coalition bombs and missiles and American tanks racing easily and thrillingly across undefended sands.
The Baghdad sets of Harryhausen's "Sinbad" movies seem to have been borrowed directly from Abbott and Costello's "Lost in a Harem"; he worked within budgets so small that even elaborate effects often had to be achieved in a single take.
BAGHDAD -- Insurgents set off bombs on two buses traveling from Baghdad to the mainly Shiite city of Kut on Monday, killing at least 20 passengers.
BAGHDAD — When future filmmakers set the Iraq War to music, they will have eight years of spins from soldier-disc jockeys to draw on, a repository of songs that represents the tastes of a generation of warriors.
BAGHDAD — Two thunderous blasts set off by suicide bombers ripped through a crowded shopping street in the town of Balad Ruz in Diyala Province on Thursday, killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 62 others, many of them seriously.
BAGHDAD — Life in Baghdad is very dangerous.
