Instead, that city, in its day Iraq's number two, has become an impoverished shadow of its former economic glory.

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Its looming shadow has since faded from the public eye, particularly with the death of bin Laden.

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The shadow economy certainly has its downside.

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Guerilla Games has been working on Killzone Shadow Fall, its first PS4 game, with a team of 150 people.

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Under the shadow of its crosstown rival, the team has eschewed patient rebuilding in favor of the immediate reload, an expensive model of waving money at big-name players that began after Strawberry bolted for his hometown Los Angeles Dodgers in 1991.

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It has also scuttled chunks of the intelligence edifice that cast a long, dark shadow over its smaller neighbour.

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