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<br />Iraqi
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<br />leave
<br />Baghdad
<br />University.
<br />The
<br />decision by
<br />some
<br />women to
<br />shun Islamic
<br />head cover
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<br />residents
<br />are growing
<br />more
<br />confident.
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<br />IIln Baghdad, children
<br />walk to school, cafes
<br />remain open after dark
<br />and young women are
<br />shunning Islamic dress - a
<br />sign residents are slowly
<br />losing some of their fear.
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<br />BAGHDAD - Engineering
<br />student lIaifa.a Salman has
<br />discarded the Islamic head
<br />cover lOhe started wltaring two
<br />years ago after militants
<br />thrltatenltd 10 "punish" hltr if
<br />she kept showing up at col-
<br />lege with hltr hair uncovered.
<br />"I was lorced to wear it,"
<br />the 22-year-old says, recalling
<br />the day in 2006 when two
<br />men on a motorbike stopped
<br />her outside campus 10 deliver
<br />the threat. But, she adds, "It's
<br />dilierent now, Lile is normal
<br />again. College women wear
<br />what they please. The
<br />extremist groups are gQnf'_"
<br />The decision by some
<br />women tn shun the Islamic
<br />head cover, or hijab, is just
<br />one of the signs thai S.1ghdad
<br />residents are growing
<br />increasingly confident in the
<br />past year's security gain~
<br />Children with backpacks
<br />can be seen walking to school.
<br />Sidewalk cafes remain open
<br />after dark. Families stroll
<br />through parks in the sunset.
<br />But alter five years of vio-
<br />lence, many people are hesi-
<br />tant.
<br />"Things arc much better
<br />now:' said Ziad Mohammed,
<br />a 49~year-old government
<br />employee who lives in Karkh,
<br />a mainly Sunni Arab district
<br />on Ihe west bank of the
<br />Tigri~
<br />"But fear is still inside me,"
<br />he added. "I want to get rid of
<br />it. Maybe it will happen next
<br />year."
<br />For now, Mohammed con-
<br />tinues to escort his children
<br />to school and picks them up
<br />because he fears they could
<br />be kidnapped.
<br />Baghdad remains a very
<br />dangerous place, and much of
<br />the capital looks like a city at
<br />war,
<br />Giant billboards appeal for
<br />information to help arrest
<br />militants accused of "crimes
<br />again.c;t thlt Iraqi people," with
<br />grainy images of fugitives,
<br />mostly bearded men in their
<br />20s and 3Os.
<br />"I will always be here:'
<br />declares a reassuring message
<br />on other billboards depicting
<br />an Iraqi army soldier tower-
<br />ing over two hoys in the back-
<br />ground.
<br />Miles of concrete blast
<br />walls and dozens of fortified
<br />checkpoints dissect the city.
<br />Some neighborhoods remain
<br />almost entirely wallltd off.
<br />and sectarian hatreds that
<br />boiled over into a bloodbath
<br />in 2006 and early 2007 sim-
<br />mer below thlt surface.
<br />A cautious Prime Minister
<br />Nouri a1 Maliki rejects calls to
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<br />remove the blast walls, which
<br />have been so effective in cur.
<br />tailing violence.
<br />"We will nOI take that
<br />risk," he said this month. "It
<br />can be a very costly gamble.
<br />Thli:Y will st<lY until we are
<br />satisfied thai we have total
<br />control over security."
<br />He is not the only one
<br />skeptical about thlt durability
<br />of the drop in violence in
<br />Baghdad - overall alt<lcks
<br />dropped to about 100 last
<br />month compan~d with nearly
<br />650 during September last
<br />year, according to the U.S.
<br />military,
<br />"I don't want to remove a
<br />barrier and find out later that
<br />I had done so prematurely,"
<br />said Col. Mark Dewhurst, the
<br />U.S. Army brigade com-
<br />mander in charge of most of
<br />Rusa(a, the mainly Shiite hall
<br />of the dty on the eastern bank
<br />of the Tigris.
<br />"I will only remove them if
<br />I can help the traffic flow and
<br />at the same time retain the
<br />same level of security," said
<br />Dewhurst, an Altus, Okla.,
<br />native with the 10th Mountain
<br />Division.
<br />The director of 8;lghdad's
<br />National Museum, looted
<br />after the United States cap-
<br />tured Baghdad in 2003, also
<br />remains skeptical. Amira
<br />Eidan says the museum will
<br />stay closed to the public for
<br />up to two more years, until
<br />sL'CI.lrity in Baghdad is beUer,
<br />Even some of the women
<br />who are doing without the
<br />hijab fear the militantlO. They
<br />take the head cover of( only in
<br />certain neighborhoods.
<br />The secular look ofliberal-
<br />minded women has not
<br />escaped notice.
<br />"The clothes o( (em.ale uni-
<br />versity students these days
<br />are shameful and more
<br />revealing than party dresses,"
<br />Sheik Muhannad al Moussawi
<br />said in a Friday prayer ser-
<br />mon in Baghdad's Sadr City
<br />district.
<br />Suheir Abbas, a 20-year-
<br />old Arabic literature student
<br />at Baghdad Univeuity,
<br />doesn't like that some of her
<br />female classmate~ come to
<br />class in revealing clothes.
<br />"WIi: live in a (ree country
<br />and everyone is (ree to wear
<br />whatever they want," she
<br />says. "But we live in a Muslim
<br />counlry, and the (li:eling~ o(
<br />others must be respected"
<br />Associated Press writer
<br />Saad Abdul.Kadir contributed
<br />to this rq>art.
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