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After two decades in the U.S., Aseel Albanna couldn't wait to return to Baghdad, the place where she grew up.

But the city has changed so much, she barely recognized parts of it.

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Nearly two weeks after U.S. combat troops officially pulled out of Iraq's cities, the government in Baghdad says the arrangement is going smoothly.

Many Iraqis, however, aren't so sure and are questioning why American soldiers are still on their streets.

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Ahead of the June 30 deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities, changes are already coming to Baghdad — including the removal of hundreds of concrete blast walls from around U.S. installations.

For nearly six years, these walls strangled Baghdad's traffic arteries.

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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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