BAGHDAD -- On the day U.S. troops entered Baghdad three years ago, Laith Abbas, a neighborhood fire chief, pulled up a chair outside his station house in the center of the city and sat down. The streets were deserted. No one knew what the Americans would do, and a cloud of fear hung over the city.... -
Dousing the Flames of War
BAGHDAD -- On the day U.S. troops entered Baghdad three years ago, Laith Abbas, a neighborhood fire chief, pulled up a chair outside his station house in the center of the city and sat down. The streets were deserted. No one knew what the Americans would do, and a cloud of fear hung over the city....-
By John Ward Anderson