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June 13, 2006
A Dentist's POV in the Iraqi War
There is an Iraqi dentist who goes by "Zeyad" blogging for the New York Times about his personal experiences of the Iraqi war.
New York Times: Select: Day to Day in Iraq: http://daytodayiniraq.blogs.nytimes.com/
"Zeyad is a 27-year-old dentist in Baghdad and the author of the blog, Healing Iraq. He was born in Baghdad and spent most of the first eight years of his life in England. He returned to Iraq with his family in 1986 and has been based there ever since. He has been posting on his blog since October 2003."
Here is the link to his personal blog.
Healing Iraq (Daily news and comments on the situation in post Saddam Iraq by an Iraqi dentist): http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/
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EXCERPT:
As my cousin led me across the street back home, I burst uncontrollably into tears. “How could you go out in your shorts?” he was saying, almost to himself. “Are you out of your mind? Haven’t you heard that they banned shorts?” ...
“Them?” I yelled back. “How long are we going to cower in fear and wait for them to get to us too? How long until we’re next in the line?”
“Yes, living here is like waiting in a damn line to get killed,” he said. “Either you learn to live with it, or you leave. Period.”
The gravity of what I did struck me the next day. I had gone out in shorts – explicitly banned by Islamists, insurgents, the “resistance,” or whoever, in our area – in front of all to check on a Shiite friend whom they deemed as an enemy and worthy of execution, for whatever reasons.
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Posted by pfa at June 13, 2006 02:40 PM