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ABC News' Terry McCarthy has been reporting on war, peace, and everything in between from all around the world for 20 years. He writes about daily life in the areas he is reporting from.
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The First Hidden Church
An archaeologist in Jordan claims to have found the earliest-known Christian church anywhere in the world. I read this online in the Jordan Times while I am next door in Iraq. What is any self-respecting journalist with a persistent sense...
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June 29, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Mosul Memories
I have fond memories of playing dominoes at a tea shop overlooking the Tigris River in the northern city of Mosul. It is right at the end of the iron bridge that connects the old part of the town with...
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June 25, 2008 in Current Affairs | Permalink | User Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
The Soccer War
We went to an unusual soccer game this week in the small village of Multaka, 130 miles north of Baghdad. It pitted the local soccer stars against a team drawn from the 87th Infantry, the U.S. military unit that is...
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June 20, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
Anger in Basra
Kadhim Twari Sa’adoon emerged from a mosque in Hiyaniyah, one of the poorest slums in Basra, wearing his best white dishdash and tribal headdress, and saw me and my cameraman waiting, microphone at the ready. Suddenly he started shouting with...
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June 16, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Coming to America
A little bit of Ted Kennedy came to roost in the ABC Baghdad bureau this past week. The bureau chief, Mike Gudgell, assembled all our Iraqi staff -- reporters, drivers, cooks, translators, electricians, cleaners, guards -- to explain to them...
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June 10, 2008 in Current Affairs | Permalink | User Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Baghdad Real Estate
So you want to buy a house, maybe do a little interior design work on it and flip it for a profit? The property market may not be looking too good for that in the United States these days, but...
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June 4, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
