For Many Iraqis, Hunt for Missing Is Never-Ending

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/world/middleeast/19disappear.html?hp

For Many Iraqis, Hunt for Missing Is Never-Ending

By DAMIEN CAVE
Published: March 19, 2007

BAGHDAD, March 18 — He comes to her in dreams, dressed in the blue police uniform he wore the day he disappeared.

“I’m alive,” he tells Intisar Rashid, his wife and the mother of their five children. “I’m alive.”

And so she restlessly keeps searching. Ever since the Thursday two months ago when her husband failed to come home, Ms. Rashid has tried to find the man she loves.

In the Green Zone last week, where she waited to scour a database of Iraqis detained by American troops, she said she had already visited the Baghdad morgue a dozen times, every hospital in the city and a handful of Iraqi government ministries.

“I feel like I’m going to collapse,” she said, carrying her husband’s police identification card in one hand and a crumpled tissue in the other. “It’s taken over my days, my nights.”

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