A girl waits for her mother to buy ribbon at a fabric stall in the local goods market in the town of Nasariyah, June 5, 2003. The southern areas of Iraq, an east-to-west arc from Basra to Nasariya to Samawah to Najaf, are relatively calm, their civil order steadily improving and their nightlife positively booming. Markets are crammed with people and commercial goods, much from the West, and water seems plentiful. (AP Photo/ElizabethDalziel

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