More than 50 people were killed and roughly 200 wounded from a suicide bombing in Baghdad Tuesday. The attack falls on the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War.Iraqi Alaa Majeed remembers the day the war came to Baghdad ten years ago but much more vividly she remembers the day she decided to leave Iraq for good in early 2007.
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