Reopening Of Iraq Bridge Symbolizes Renewed Unity -- L.A. TimesThe Two Imams bridge in Baghdad was the site of a stampede that killed 1,000 Iraqis in 2005, and a link between formerly warring Sunni and Shiite districts, now rejoined.
Reporting from Baghdad -- They gathered by the green steel-span bridge, where nearly 1,000 people died three years ago in a stampede set off when rumors spread through a crowd of pilgrims that a suicide bomber was in their midst.
On Tuesday, buoyed by renewed hopes for their country's future, clerics, politicians and ordinary citizens crossed the Two Imams bridge for the first time since the August 2005 tragedy, restoring the long-severed link between the Sunni Muslim neighborhood of Adhamiya and the Shiite Muslim stronghold of Kadhimiya.
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My Comment: Forward progress.