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Mon Oct 23 -

BAGHDAD NOIR -

# Zappy witnesses an abduction as if he were a ghost. He calls 911 to report it, but the phone keeps ringing endlessly with no answer. He calls six times, but still no one picks up.

+ It is a city of anonymous shadows where no one has a name.

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# Nabil learns of the murder of a hairdresser from an eyewitness. She was on her way home from her shop around 5:30pm in a taxi when it was cut off by a civilian car. Four teenage boys emerged and approached her cab. They dragged her out of the taxi by force, put a black plastic bag over her head and then shot her to death, leaving her corpse lying in the street.

+ Perhaps, she wasn't wearing the black shroud some crackpot had ordered.

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