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Iraq Violence Turns Inward
by possibly noteworthy at 9:19 am EST, Mar 26, 2006

I GOT back to Iraq two weeks ago, having been away more than a year.

Gone were the American tanks that used to guard the intersections. Instead, aggressive teenagers with machine guns and shiny soccer jerseys ruled the streets. They poked their heads into cars and detained whomever they wanted. There were even 8-year-olds running checkpoints, some toting toy pistols, others toting real ones. Whatever they carried, 4-foot-tall militias made me nervous. The streets now had a truly Liberian feel.

If this all sounds depressing, it is. That's how people here feel.

See also The Beseiged Press in the latest New York Review of Books.


 
 
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