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Inside Northern Iraq

Time correspondent Michael Ware has followed the ravages of war through Afghanistan and on to Iraq. The war in Iraq is over. But has the dust settled in Northern Iraq or is it a powder keg ready to explode? A darkening view of unrest in the north.

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Michael Ware, correspondent, Time Magazine

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