Word: karada
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...eucalyptus trees inside the presidential compound; peacocks and gazelles roamed the grounds. One party pad that neighbors call the China house was decorated entirely in chinoiserie, complete with murals of Chinese women doing the washing and playing the erhu, a two-string instrument. In the upscale Baghdad suburb of Karada, Uday kept a love nest for trysts...
...Baghdad's Outer Karada street, immense satellite dishes sell like bread - as the Arabic expression goes - demonstrating a hunger for information that has also prompted a booming market for local and international newspapers. Baghdad may be the world's only city of more than 5 million inhabitants without a cellular phone system, but that will come soon - and every household that can afford them is sure to have several. For now, Iraqis desperate to tell family and friends that they are safe must plead with journalists for a few minutes on their satellite phones, or pay $10 a minute...
...palace, in the tony Baghdad suburb of Karada, was not Uday's main residence but rather a safe house in which Uday could hide out, as well as, according to a neighbor, a "love nest" to which he would bring his many girlfriends. Snapshots found in the remains of a darkroom show him fishing with friends, riding a motorbike in a black leather jacket, posing with pet lions and hanging out in shorts and a cowboy...