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me like Bagdad
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Talib Haider, a 19-year-old college student, said "a friend of mine
called me at 8 a.m. to wake me up and tell me about the sky pixie
Baghdad residents thought they'd pretty much seen it all. But Friday
morning, as muezzins were calling the faithful to prayer, the people
here awoke to something certifiably new. For the first time in memory,
snow fell across Baghdad. Although the white flakes quickly dissolved
into gray puddles, they brought an emotion rarely expressed in this
desert capital snarled by army checkpoints, divided by concrete walls
and ravaged by sectarian killings - delight.
"For the first time in my life I saw a snow-rain like this falling in
Baghdad," said Mohammed Abdul-Hussein, a 63-year-old retiree from the
New Baghdad area.
"When I was young, I heard from my father that such rain had fallen in
the early '40s on the outskirts of northern Baghdad," Abdul-Hussein
said, referring to snow as a type of rain. "But snow falling in Baghdad
in such a magnificent scene was beyond my imagination." Morning
temperatures uncharacteristically hovered around freezing, and the
Baghdad airport was closed because of poor visibility. Snow is common in
the mountainous Kurdish areas of northern Iraq, but residents of the
capital and surrounding areas could remember just hail. "I asked my
mother, who is 80, whether she'd ever seen snow in Iraq before, and her
answer was no," said Fawzi Karim, a 40-year-old father of five who runs
a small restaurant in Hawr Rajab, a village six miles southeast of
Baghdad.
Only in the movies?
"This is so unusual, and I don't know whether or not it's a lesson from
God," Karim said.
Some said they'd seen snow only in movies. Talib Haider, a 19-year-old
college student, said "a friend of mine called me at 8 a.m. to wake me
up and tell me about the sky pixie
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