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Even on a heavy European day, Iraq was not forgotten. From Baghdad, CBS' Lara Logan claimed exclusive access to grainy black-and-white pilot's eye cockpit videotape of a USArmy Apache helicopter under fire from a truck-mounted machine gun; the helicopter fires back, hunting down the gunmen on the ground. "It is an image of the war the US military has rarely allowed to be seen." Back on the ground, Logan continued her report accompanying a house-to-house search through the capital's Rashid neighborhood--an "al-Qaeda hotspot"--with an army Stryker brigade. As she picked through rubble she learned to spot "decomposing bodies buried in shallow graves…it is hard work in the blistering Baghdad heat."
ABC provided free publicity for the Kiva online person-to-person microloan site--the word means Agreement in Swahili. Small business start-ups in 30 countries receive loans of $25-or-so from Kiva lenders, Betsy Stark told us in A Closer Look "but no loans have attracted lenders faster than the ones Kiva started posting just a few weeks ago from Iraq." For example, an anonymous woman in Kirkuk has just received the loan she needs to turn an empty stall into a hair salon. The donor explained: "Even in chaos, ladies want to look good, no matter what."
And on The Homefront in Minnesota, NBC's Janet Shamlian pointed out that military families with National Guard members deployed in Iraq can have an even harder time than those in the regular military. On an army base, wives and children have neighbors to share with, counseling services and support groups at hand. In tiny Cannon Falls Minn, population 4,000, five-year-old Vanessa Peer and her brother "are the only children with a daddy at war."
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