St. George’s and the tree
by Rod Nordland for the NY TImes 
Posted by Kendall Harmon for TitusOneNine
Surrounded by glass and steel government buildings, some of them bombed-out shells from long ago, St. George’s Church in downtown Baghdad has always seemed like something of an oasis. Ever since the United States started using high explosives diplomacy with Iraq, the little Anglican church has had one close call after another. Built in 1936 by the British military during their occupation of Iraq, the church lost some of its famous stained-glass windows when the United States military bombed a nearby building in 1992, and more were destroyed during the invasion in 2003, leaving only three examples remaining. They were mementos of British regiments stationed there. Read it all
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