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26 October 2009updated 05 Oct 2023 8:33am

Iraq: the new “forgotten“ war?

More death, more bloodshed, more chaos

By Mehdi Hasan

The war in Iraq is the war that never goes away. Over the past six and a half years, it has dominated the headlines — but always for all the wrong reasons. In the wake of yesterday’sco-ordinated suicide bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed more than 150 people and wounded more than 500, it is a theme picked up by Sami Ramadani, the Iraqi-born, British-based academic, in the Guardian:

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