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Unseen Iraq Photo by Andrea Bruce/TWP

In Baghdad, a Trip to Nowhere

UNSEEN IRAQ 

| At 5:30 a.m., everything is dark at the Baghdad Central Station. There are no passengers about, and most of the gates are still locked. The morning train, the only working train, leaves the station with a deep, heavy rhythm that vibrates through the six passenger cars.  
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