IRAQ: Baghdad taxi drivers devise new survival tactics

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IRIN News
Before 2006, Noor Adel Abdullah, a 21-year-old student of English at Baghdad's College of Languages, used to take a 20-minute ride by bus to get to her college. Now, she needs at least an hour and three buses to reach the same destination. Noor finds it difficult to get a Sunni bus driver to drive her from her Sunni Amiriyah neighbourhood in western Baghdad to the Shia Bab al-Mudham area in the east, where the college is located. "I have to change buses three times as most of the Sunni drivers can't get through Shia areas and vice-versa, as they fear sectarian violence," said Abdullah. For decades, Iraq's six million-strong capital was a city where people mixed freely and did not care whether their neighbour was a Sunni or a Shia Muslim...
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