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| Iraq |
| Baghdad Starts to Exhale as Security Improves |
| 2007-11-20 |
| BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 — Five months ago, Suhaila al-Aasan lived in an oxygen tank factory with her husband and two sons, convinced that they would never go back to their apartment in Dora, a middle-class neighborhood in southern Baghdad. Today she is home again, cooking by a sunlit window, sleeping beneath her favorite wedding picture. And yet, she and her family are remarkably alone. The half-dozen other apartments in her building echo with emptiness and, on most days, Iraqi soldiers are the only neighbors she sees. “I feel happy,” she said, standing in her bedroom, between a flowered bedspread and a bullet hole in the wall. “But my happiness is not complete. We need more people to come back. We need more people to feel safe.” |
| Posted by:Delphi |
| #2 Must be some sort of milestone - it's in The New York Times. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-11-20 17:25 |
| #1 Five months ago, Suhaila al-Aasan lived in an oxygen tank factory... Not to get all Sam the Eagle on them but... that doesn't sound safe at all. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-11-20 10:47 |