President Obama called for a "new beginning" in relations between the U.S. and the Muslim world in a speech Thursday in Cairo.
The speech was translated simultaneously into Arabic. An Iraqi family who watched the speech in Baghdad agreed with Obama that no single speech can eradicate years of mistrust.
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