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Sarah Benhaida

Sarah Benhaida is a freelance journalist whose globe-spanning reporting has been seen in Yahoo Singapore, Business Insider, New Zealand Herald, AlterNet, Military.com, Yahoo, MSN, The Times South Africa, The Star (South Africa), France 24, La Presse and more.

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Still not Bush’s Iraq: Anti-American Cleric, Pro-Iran Militia and Communists ahead in Election

Still not Bush’s Iraq: Anti-American Cleric, Pro-Iran Militia and Communists ahead in Election

Sarah Benhaida

Years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iraq looks nothing like the American puppet state Neoconservatives had dreamed of

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