The town's bazaar was just as it always would have been, a mass of higgledypiggledy buildings.

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Iraq has introduced a new concept - mass looting as an act of public approval and looting of government buildings in particular.

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Such adventures (which included mass vandalism of buildings and equipment at the Pine Mountain Club) came at a price a 30-40% annual mortality rate.

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