From: "John Beamish" 

Not so weird.  The first sentence says that it's Baghdad that is isolated
and says nothing else about other areas of the country which, from many
reports, is gradually being "cleansed" leaving  ethno-centric
regions where the level of violence doesn't match Baghdad's.

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:24:59 -0500, Rich Gauszka
 wrote:

> The weird part is Iraq's economy appears to be booming along with the
> other
> booming
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16241340/site/newsweek/
>

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