[Mb-civic] Traveling on a Highway of Dread

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Traveling on a Highway of Dread 
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A reporter recalls her own wary journey on airport road hours before an ex-hostage was shot.

By Alissa J. Rubin
Times Staff Writer

March 7 2005

BAGHDAD — The route runs through a broad and flat landscape, bare but for a few date palms rising tall and dignified and the occasional small bush. Goats mill about, shepherded by young boys or old men. Except for the litter of plastic bottles and bags, the scene is almost pastoral, peaceful. 

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