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As war ravages Baghdad, city’s ambulance workers must pick up the pieces

International Herald Tribune

BAGHDAD — Each time emergency workers return to the Mansour district ambulance station after a run, they jot notes in a dog-eared logbook that doubles as a grim diary of life here in the capital.

Sept. 10, for example: bombing with two dead.

Or Sept. 29: woman shot in the abdomen.

Oct. 10: man with shrapnel wounds. ...

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