He looks just like his pictures, the red and white scarf neatly tied on his head, the traditional peshmerga outfit cinched in at the waist by a wide belt.

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As we leave the city limits, we drive through a wide girdle of forest, planted as a green belt designed to be both a lung and a windbreak.

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