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| | ZNet |Iraq | Iraq, one year on |
 | | The mosques were floodlit, the Iraqi police cars dozing beneath the palm trees, the foliage rich and sweet-smelling under the street lamps. |
 | | I walked the highway as the last shots were still being fired by snipers, peering into cars packed with the flened corpses of men, women, children. |
 | | In the back of one car lay a young, naked woman, her perfect features flened by fire, her husband or father still sitting at the steering wheel, his legs severed below the knees. |
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