Iraq Reviews > “Baghdad is dying”

[One Utah] From CNN correspondent Arwa Damon in Baghdad: “Baghdad is dying, we are all just waiting in line.” Khaled ”” not his real name to protect his life ”” one of our Iraqi employees, said the words softy, his eyes glossing over. It was during a conversation with our Bureau Chief Cal Perry, talking about work in the bureau, and I was helping out translating.

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http://baghdadblog.msnbc.com [Baghdadblog.msnbc.com] Blogging Baghdad: The Untold Story - MSNBC.com: As I've learned more about the ordeals of our local staff members, I've at least been reassured by the fact that the decent, Western pay most earn has allowed many of them to get their families to safer places outside of Baghdad. But like most everything else here, even that small consolation is elusive.

[Washingtonbureau.typepad.com] Inside Iraq: The road used to take about 30 minutes now it is between an hour to 4 hours, THANKS TO MILITARY CONVOYS AND IRAQI ARMY AND POLICE CHECKPOINTS, any way we were talking and catching up and all these things DID YOU GET MARRIED? was the main question THANK GOD, NO was the usual answer, then he told me he is leaving the country soon as he can not take it any more and he feels he is dying from the inside, imagine he is the doctor NOT THE patient.

[Timesonline.typepad.com] Weblog - Inside Iraq - Times Online: The officials cautioned no census had been conducted in over 10 years, but said the data "was fairly close and was verified by Iraqis." The military listed the five neighboroods that are most prone to sectarian violence as Amariya, Ghazaliya, Kadhamiya and Qadasiya, which are on the Sunni-dominated western bank of the Tigris River, and Adhamiya, which is on Baghdad's Shia-dominated eastern bank.

http://www.fumento.com [Fumento.com] Michael Fumento: Covering Iraq: The Modern Way of War Correspondence: In 10 months, the only enemy fire they have seen on the airport road came after one of the civilian trucks they were escorting broke down.” And two months earlier, USA Today had published a similar account, backing it up with a quote from an officer whose men patrolled the roads: “Route Irish is definitely not the most dangerous road in Iraq any longer, and everyone who uses it knows it.” Apparently, though, the Sunday Times reporter didn’t know it — and other Baghdad journalists still don’t know it.

Realcities.com[Realcities.com] Civil war in Iraq -- McClatchy Washington Bureau: U.S. and Iraqi troops, backed by American F-15 jet fighters and Apache attack helicopters, fought suspected insurgents in one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods. U.S. and Iraqi officials said the assault on the Haifa Street rooted out an insurgent cell, but Sunni residents said the American forces had been duped by the Shiite-dominated security forces into participating in a plan to drive Sunnis from the area.

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