Mustansiriya

Now read the terrible report of a bombing at this same university January 17th, 2007. Here it is below, in the blog of Zeyad, an Iraqi in the United States whose brother and sister were attending the university at the time of THAT bombing.
Remember Zeyad with the Healing Iraq blog?  This is what he had [...]

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Iraqi Campus Is Under Gang’s Sway

This article appeared in the October 20, 2009 edition of the New York Times
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and RIYADH MOHAMMED
BAGHDAD — Mustansiriya University, one of Iraq’s most prestigious universities, was temporarily closed this month by the prime minister in an effort to rid it of a shadowy student gang accused of murdering, torturing and raping fellow [...]

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SECURITY ABOVE ALL ELSE

The Iraqi government recently reported that 85,000 civilians were killed between 2004 and 2008 during the worst of the sectarian violence that pushed the country to the brink of full-scale civil war. Thousands more were seriously injured.
On Oct. 25, two massive car bombs destroyed the JUSTICE MINISTRY AND PROVINCIAL COUNCIL BUILDING in downtown Baghdad, killing [...]

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