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Article: Rebuilt and at peace - Sadr City offers a glimpse of the new Iraq
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- January 30, 2005
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SIX MONTHS ago, the only digging being done on the streets of
Baghdad's Sadr City was by insurgents, burying bombs to be detonated
when American army vehicles passed by.
Now, with much the same fervour with which they once turned it
into a battleground, the Shia slum's vast army of streetfighters is
laying trenches for water mains and electricity lines.
In what appears to be a striking success story ahead of today's
elections, a huge United States-led reconstruction programme has
brought a fragile peace to an area that was once the potential
flashpoint for a nationwide uprising of Iraq's Shia underclass.
Markets, schools and public buildings shattered in violent clashes
last summer are being ...