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Dozens Die in Attacks in Shiite Part of Baghdad

Smoke billows from the site where a car bomb exploded in a local market in Baghdad's poor neighborhood of Sadr City, March 12, 2006.
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Smoke billows from the site where a car bomb exploded in a local market in Baghdad's poor neighborhood of Sadr City, March 12, 2006.

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Jamie Tarabay
After reporting from Iraq for two years as NPR's Baghdad Bureau Chief, Jamie Tarabay is now embarking on a two year project reporting on America's Muslims. The coverage will take in the country's approx 6 million Muslims, of different ethnic, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, and the issues facing their daily lives as Americans.
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