Baghdad continues to be reborn from decades of repression and violence:
A YEAR ago it would have been unthinkable. After all, it was a city where driving to work became a life-or-death decision and where residents were cooped in enclaves amid murder and mayhem.
But the Mayor of Baghdad has surprised everyone by announcing plans for an underground rail network that would literally carve a swathe through the city’s sectarian lines.
This was actually planned back in the 1970s, but Saddam was more interested in seizing his neighbors’ oilfields and building palaces and monuments to himself than in constructing anything useful.
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