sway2sway
07-28-2007, 04:06 AM
staples of life, overlap in iraq
that's the name of the article
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/world/middleeast/28ice.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
everything is a power struggle there, huh?
I find these kinds of articles interesting because it gives you more of a glimpse what it's really like there for the average person, how things have changed, what the day to day shit they deal with is all about.
from the article, a couple guys comments:
1. “I never used to buy ice in Saddam’s regime, because I could use my refrigerator. But nowadays I have to because there is no electricity, and we need cold water,” said Muhammad Abbadi, 52, the owner of a clothing store. “Ice is the only source, even if it is dirty. Both my girls fell sick with typhoid two weeks ago.”
2. The thought is particularly rankling to Mr. Kareem because until three months ago he lived in Yarmouk, a Sunni neighborhood, and enjoyed a secure government job, until an Iraqi Army raid uncovered a Shiite icon on his wall.
“They beat me up, burnt my house and forced me out of the area,” he said, squatting amid the nauseating smell of ammonium that permeates all ice factories. “I now live in my relatives’ kitchen. And I work here.”
that's the name of the article
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/world/middleeast/28ice.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
everything is a power struggle there, huh?
I find these kinds of articles interesting because it gives you more of a glimpse what it's really like there for the average person, how things have changed, what the day to day shit they deal with is all about.
from the article, a couple guys comments:
1. “I never used to buy ice in Saddam’s regime, because I could use my refrigerator. But nowadays I have to because there is no electricity, and we need cold water,” said Muhammad Abbadi, 52, the owner of a clothing store. “Ice is the only source, even if it is dirty. Both my girls fell sick with typhoid two weeks ago.”
2. The thought is particularly rankling to Mr. Kareem because until three months ago he lived in Yarmouk, a Sunni neighborhood, and enjoyed a secure government job, until an Iraqi Army raid uncovered a Shiite icon on his wall.
“They beat me up, burnt my house and forced me out of the area,” he said, squatting amid the nauseating smell of ammonium that permeates all ice factories. “I now live in my relatives’ kitchen. And I work here.”