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NEWS DAY | Minneapolis to Najaf

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By Mary Turck, News Day blog
July 29, 2009

The Minneapolis city council will vote Friday on a proposal to make the Shiite holy city of Najaf, in Iraq, the tenth sister city for Minneapolis, reports the Star Tribune. Long-time Minneapolis restaurauteur Sami Rasouli is a native of Iraq, and returned there in 2004 to help rebuild the country. Working with the Iraqi & American Reconciliation Project, Rasouli has "developed letter exchanges among students, raised money for water filtration systems at 10 schools or hospitals in the Najaf area, and arranged shows of Iraqi art." Najaf, located about 100 miles south of Baghdad, has a population of about 500,000.

The TC Daily Planet published three of Rasouli's reports from Iraq, Freezing in Iraq, Food and water in Iraq, and Making a living in Iraq in 2008. Rasouli founded and volunteers for the Muslim Peacekeeper Team-Iraq.

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