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Khalid Ansari, who still thinks of the deaths he witnessed during the war, and Mohammed Hafudh, a civil servant in the oil industry who plans to run for office to try and reform the government.

More than 25 people were killed in a series of coordinated attacks in the Pakistan city of Lahore last week. Faizaan Peerzada runs an art center in Lahore. On the evening of the day when the attacks took place, Faizaan drove through the city to the BBC studios to speak with Dick Gordon. Faizaan says he was willing to take the risk because his arts organization depends on international support.

A month after the fall of Baghdad, photographer Molly Bingham met a friendly middle-aged man who offered to give her a tour of a mosque where she had been taking pictures. As she was leaving, the man told Molly's translator he was with the resistance. Over the next 10 months, Molly met and talked with the Iraqi men and women who were beginning to join the insurgency. The result is a documentary film, "Meeting Resistance."

Since the Iraq war began in 2003, more than 2 million refugees have fled that country. To date, the US has admitted only 466. But last week, Washington announced it would speed up the process for admitting Iraqi refugees. One woman hoping to enter the country is Nour al-Khal. She spoke to Dick Gordon from an undisclosed location, out of concerns for her own safety. She was shot while working with American journalist, Steven Vincent, who was killed in the assassination attempt.