From Washington Post:
BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 -- It was billed as a peace concert in war-scarred Baghdad. But after 30 minutes of poetry and patriotic songs, only a scattering of tribal leaders and dark-suited bureaucrats were sitting in the vast expanse of white plastic chairs before a stage painted with doves.
That didn't trouble Col. Bill Hickman, whose soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division helped organize the event.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 -- It was billed as a peace concert in war-scarred Baghdad. But after 30 minutes of poetry and patriotic songs, only a scattering of tribal leaders and dark-suited bureaucrats were sitting in the vast expanse of white plastic chairs before a stage painted with doves.
That didn't trouble Col. Bill Hickman, whose soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division helped organize the event.
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