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Rebuilding in Iraq: A year ago, the Al Khafaji family lost three
members and saw their Baghdad home destroyed by a pair of
suicide bombs. Staff writer Scott Peterson, awakened in his
hotel room a block away by the first explosion and flying glass,
was among the first on the scene. "Rescue workers were just
starting to dig through the rubble for survivors. Cars were on
fire. The wounded and shell-shocked were staggering around," he
recalls.  He saw a woman's body pulled from a building. As Scott
drew closer to take photos, a family member dipped his hand in
the water from a burst pipe, and angrily flung it at Scott and
the other photographers gathering. "Ahmed [al- Khafaji] was
angry at us and the entire tragedy," says Scott.  Later that
day, Scott returned to talk to the family. "I apologized for
taking a picture of something so sensitive to the family. He
apologized, too. We've been friends ever since. I've been by to
visit several times in the p