Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

01/02/05

Lakes of sewage in the streets. The smell of corpses inside charred buildings. No water or electricity. Long waits and thorough searches by U.S. troops at checkpoints. Warnings to watch out for land mines and booby traps. Occasional gunfire between troops and insurgents. 'I thought, 'This is not my town!'' Atiya said Tuesday after going back to the abandoned Baghdad clinic his family shares with nearly 100 other displaced Fallujans. 'How can I take my family to live there?'"

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp