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Along orange groves and orchards of figs and pears watered by the timeless churn of the Tigris River, Hashim Mohammed Aani often sat before a bird cage he built of scrap wood and a loose lattice of chicken coop wire.

A little before 1pm Wednesday, in a city seething with discontent, the men emerged from the washroom, their wet faces glistening under a searing sun.

Baghdad Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the senior religious figure of Iraq's Shiite majority and the community's most influential voice, has expressed "great unease" about the 10-week-old U.S. occupation and demanded that the U.S. allow Iraqis to rule themselves.

Crime, resistance make a lethal cocktail for troops

New TV stations set to take on Al Jazeera

Arab foreign ministers have agreed to meet in Cairo this month to prepare for a summit that Arab leaders have pushed in hopes of making a last-ditch effort to head off a U.S.-led attack against Iraq, diplomats said on Wednesday.

Sgt 1st Class Robert Hollis knew there was trouble even before the shooting started. As he stood guard in his M1-A1 Abrams tank outside a bank in this Sunni town, the usually busy streets suddenly emptied Sunday.

The brief but violent war in Iraq left thousands of people dead, others homeless. Today, many of those who live do so not under a roof but under a threat of death. And, like the country still shadowed by war, people are trying to rebuild but with little success, reports Anthony Shadid

Tahsin glanced uneasily over his shoulder, a well-practiced habit in Saddam Hussain's Iraq.

Loyalists 'still in control'

Capital awaits chaos amid darkness

Confusion and fear stalk Baghdad