Into the abyss
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The week Iraq's dream of peace fell apart
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
18 September 2004
Where freedom was promised, chaos and carnage now reign. A suicide
bomber in a car blows himself up in the heart of Baghdad killing 13
people. Air raids by US near the city of Fallujah kill scores more.
And so ends one of the bleakest weeks in Iraq's grim recent history.
Between them, suicide bombers targeting Iraqi police and US air
strikes aimed at rebels have killed some 300 Iraqis since last
Saturday - many of them were civilians. The escalating violence throws
into doubt the elections planned for January and the ability of the US
and interim Iraqi government to control the country.
Patrick Cockburn
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