Friday, September 14, 2007
"And ordinary life is beginning to return."
Babs must have dropped Li'l Georgie on his head a few times too many because he has the strangest idea of ordinary life. Leila Fadel with the assistance of McClatchy Newspapers special correspondents Sahar Issa, Mohammed al Dulaimy, Laith Hammoudi and Jenan Hussein gets some real life examples of what may become ordinary life in Iraq. Even the most fortunate one has the sort of life that most people would willingly forego.
Muhsin al Ribaawi, 45, a Shiite, lives in Hurriyah, a once-mixed neighborhood in northwest Baghdad that's been devoid of Sunnis since they were forced out in December. The change was good, Ribaawi thinks. He can travel freely through Shiite neighborhoods throughout the capital, though he never ventures into Sunni enclaves. He no longer sees as many bodies dumped on the streets. As a supervisor for roads and bridges in Baghdad, he used to encounter as many as 20 a day. "I'm so happy for that," he said.How many bottles of Jack Daniels does it take to make a Connecticut born preppy see this as ordinary?
Still, life is hardly back to normal. Dirty and disease-ridden, the water that comes from his tap is "terrifying."
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