US to leave Baghdad base, Iraqi said to turn it into a shopping mall

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/01/03/news/news-us-iraq-handover.html?_r=1


The U.S. military took a step toward pulling combat troops from Iraqi cities on Saturday, moving out of a Baghdad base that Iraqi officials said would be dismantled and converted back into a shopping mall.

It was the first U.S. military base to be handed over to Iraq since U.S. forces came under Iraqi authority on January 1 in step with a new bilateral security pact.

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U.S. forces set up the base in March 2007 around an abandoned shopping center, now decayed and riddled with bullet holes, in a bid to repel Shi'ite militias from the largely Sunni Adhamiya district. It has been quiet for months.

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"We are going to rebuild it for the Iraqi people. It will sell everything they need, clothes, car parts, food, just like before the war," Jadoo told Reuters.
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we are so guilty for what we have done to Iraqis

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1. Just as long as it's Walmart . . . .

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2. didn't think of that - good grief

you could turn out to be right