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Anna Badkhen  BAGHDAD - The war is over on Sixth Street, where
Sahar al-Jawari's family lives in a modest brick house. Dust has
filled the shrapnel holes in concrete fences, stagnant water has
pooled in the crater left by a roadside bomb, and the ash and
the few charred chunks of the Iraqi police car that the bomb
blew up are barely visible on the sidewalk.  But Jawari, 33, has
little faith that her life is about to improve. Every night the
wind carries the sounds of gunshots and occasional explosions
from other parts of Baghdad, where the war still goes on. Every
day is a struggle to get by in a city that gets only four hours
of power and running water a day. Jawari is divorced and
unemployed, but Iraq's weak government gives her no financial
aid. Nor does it make her deadbeat ex-husband pay her child
support to help raise her 12-year-old daughter, Roula.  "We have
no money, no electricity, no water, no security, no future,
nothing," Jawari says