Zawra

The main city park, Zawra, is adjacent to the Green Zone and home to the Baghdad Zoo.

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The main city park, Zawra, is adjacent to the Green Zone and home to the Baghdad Zoo.

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Ali Al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images Thousands of Iraqis partied under massive security at a concert in the Zawra Park in central Baghdad to mark the coming pullout of U.S. troops and to celebrate nation's reclaimed sovereignty.

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"Just four months ago, you could hardly see a single family here," says Zawra official Hussein Matar.

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Among Sunnis and even some Shiites, Zawra has become one of the most popular stations in Iraq.

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One of our translators succumbed to the tears of his son recently and took him to Zawra for his 9th birthday.

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The videos on Zawra are powerful precisely because they confirm the preconceptions many Iraqis have about the occupation.

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At the extreme is the Zawra channel, run by former Sunni parliamentarian Mishan Jibouri, who fled to Syria last year after being accused of corruption.

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Perhaps it got that name because the zone does include some of the only green space in Baghdad, including most of the Zawra Park and Zoo, the Festival and Parade Ground, the vast grounds of the New Unknown Soldier monument, the Convention Center, the al Rashid hotel, the Republican Guard presidential palace, the National Assembly complex, the Hands of Victory monument, the 14th of July Monument and all or parts of five city neighborhoods.

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The station that shows them, Zawra, was banned by the Iraqi government last month, but within days it was back on air.

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