Monkey See, Monkey Do
Americans Turn Tikrit Into Iraq's Own West BankIt is the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but transported to Iraq. A town is imprisoned by razor wire. The entrance is guarded by soldiers, protected by sand bags, concrete barricades and a machine-gun nest.
Only those people with an identification card issued by the occupation authorities are allowed in or, more importantly, out.
'Hey, this is just like Gaza, isn't it?' a fiery-eyed young Iraqi policeman shouted at us from behind the chest-high, three-layer wire coils which separate his home from the rest of the surrounding dead-flat Iraqi landscape, Sunni Triangle heartland. 'We're not happy. Not happy!'
I just have to reiterate, "Not happy!"
* Ray, 11/18/2003 04:15:38 PM
