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« Support Our Heroes | Main | Will Someone Please Put This Man Out of Our Misery? » April 09, 2004
The View from Baghdad
Posted by Bill Read this blog from an international NGO worker in Baghdad: One of my staff who lives by Paradise Square, where the Saddam statue was toppled, said that the US military had just closed off the area and said that anyone who steps outside will be shot. I understand this to be a pre-emptive measure. ... There's More: While I don't want to say that things aren't bad here - they are - there is currently very little action on the street, as I understand it. Still nothing where I am. If you know Baghdad, I'll give you a rundown of trouble spots. Adhamiya (Sunni neighborhood) is pretty bad - explosions and shooting, according to friends that live there. Some photographers I know are trying to get action on camera, and are having trouble tracking it down. While things may be quiet today, the tension remains. The feeling is that things could go in any direction. With 7 US soldiers dead in Sadr City, the Shi'ia slum on the east side of Baghdad, and 20 Iraqis dead from Spanish troops firing on them in Najaf, I'm about 80% sure that Sadr City will explode tomorrow. Fortunately, Sadr City is about ten miles away from where I am. Click here and keep scrolling. Posted by Bill at April 9, 2004 10:22 AM | TrackBack (1) Commentssadr city, formerly saddam city, is bad. the beauty of it is that it's easily cordoned off and a well known area. done it before, do it again, as often as necessary. karradah is trickier, but still, the stuff described here isn't really terribly unusual, a night in baghdad without gunfire and explosions would be a true surprise indeed Posted by: 307MP at April 10, 2004 05:46 PM I read back over my comments from last Sunday. I had forgotten I had made them. I'm happy to be at least partially wrong. Things were very bad, but not as bad as I had anticipated. Posted by: Babelonandon at April 11, 2004 04:32 AM |
