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By Benedict Carey / The Bulletin
July 28, 2009
The sight was not unusual, at least not for Mosul, Iraq, on a summer morning: a car parked on the sidewalk, facing traffic, its windows rolled up. Two boys stared out the windshield.
The soldier closest to the car stopped. It had to be hot in there; it was 120 degrees outside.....