Word: amiriyah
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...Driving into the city, I see one of the many new concrete blast walls that have gone up since my last departure: there seeem to be miles and miles of these walls, circling off some of the most violent neighborhoods, like Dora and Amiriyah. They keep sectarian militias from marauding freely through the city, as they did before the surge. In many places, artists have painted huge murals on the walls, mostly scenes from Iraq's history, stretching back to the time of Hammurabi. The purpose is to make the walls seem less oppressive, but it also has another, unintended...
Another site mentioned by the allies in the walk-up to the war was the Amiriyah Serum and Vaccine Institute, which both British intelligence and the CIA suspected was part of a biological-warfare program...
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