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Article: Sadr City begins to turn around New challenges as U.S. gears up to enforce security plan
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- International Herald Tribune
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- February 9, 2007
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Damien Cave
International Herald Tribune
02-09-2007
Wisam A. Habeeb, Hosham Hussein and Ahmad Fadam contributed reporting from Baghdad.* Just past the main guarded checkpoint into Sadr City, children kicked soccer balls on fields with new green nets where mounds of trash covered the ground last summer. A few blocks away, city workers planted palm trees in the median while men gathered at a cafe nearby to chatter and laugh. Sadr City, once infamous as a fetid slum and symbol of Shiite repression, is recovering with the help of $41 million in reconstruction funds from the Shiite-led Iraqi government, all of it spent since May, according to Iraqi officials, and millions more in American ...