Baghdad – War-scarred Iraq will hold a parliamentary election next month but Sajad, a 23-year-old man sitting with his friends in a Baghdad cafe, doesn't really care.
"I see the politicians' posters in the street, but I don't know the names or the programs," says the man, his head shaved and forearms tattooed.
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