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Schoolchildren's views mirror Iraq's divisions

By Steve Negus and Dhia Rasan in Baghdad

Published: October 15 2004 03:00 | Last updated: October 15 2004 03:00

Nagham, a young history teacher at west Baghdad's al-Haleb school, throws out a question to her class of ten-year-olds: are car bombs in the streets an Islamically permissible way to fight the occupier?

Ten-year old Ahmed Emad pipes up with what appears to be the majority view. "That kind of thing aims to kill Iraqis," he says. The perpetrators "are all a bunch of terrorists".

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