The streets markets look like something out of a William Gibson novel. Heaps of cheap RAM (stolen of course) is being sold beside broken monitors beside falafel stands and weapons are all available. Fights break out justlikethat and knives come out from nowhere, knives just bought 5 minutes ago. There are army sighting thingys, Weird looking things with lenses. And people selling you computer cases who tell you these are electric warmers, never having seen a computer case before. Really truly surreal. Software CDs, Movie CDs and cheap porn. And a set of 5 CDs called [the crimes of saddam] it has things from halabja, the footage they have taped during 91 while squishing the uprising after the war and other stuff about Uday, there is one whole CD about Uday. Have not seen any of them yet. They say there is some gruesome footage on them but the Uday CD is not as juicy as you’d think.
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Though I find myself cringing whenever he says what a crappy job we’re doing restoring order, I still like his poetic writings about simple things:
“And later at night 4 of the soldiers stationed in al ameriyah street were walking back holding these kerosene lights we call ‘laleh’. They have bought them from the shop down the street because their generator broke down or something. Night watch done in very romantic light.”
May 10th, 2003 at 10:47 am