traffic arteries

Baghdad Begins New Era As Blast Walls Come Down

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Wed, 06/24/2009 - 2:40am

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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