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Iraqi City Rebuilds in Relative Calm

by Anne Garrels, NPR
March 3, 2006

Few Sunni Muslims live in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. As a result, the city has not suffered from the same sectarian attacks that plague Baghdad, just a two hour drive north. Reconstruction efforts there have picked up, but peace in Najaf is still far from certain.

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