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To: NickSE who wrote (100754)	6/8/2003 9:10:17 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Quiet Iraqis Yearn to Leave Each Other Alone ap.tbo.com ....."I love it here," says the relentlessly grinning Jamme, 40, a Sunni Muslim whose boss is a Shiite at a place owned by a Christian. "I look out over the water and after two, maybe three beers, I feel like a king." Gimy Jamme is a face from Iraq's secular society. Like plenty of other people who aren't in the streets agitating for their agenda, he lies low and waits for the rebirth of a nation, hoping only for a government that isn't a tyranny. As clerics exhort their followers to enforce Islamic law in the shards of this splintered country, some footprints of secular life have been slowly vanishing. Street shops and roadside vendors can no longer openly sell beer. Few women appear in public without at least some covering on their heads. And yet other signs of secular society are everywhere. Dozens of kids huddle around an outdoor television set, enchanted by a Jim Carrey movie. A trio of beautiful young women in black shawls wear makeup to achieve magazine model glamour. People who simply want to live the life they choose are often the quietest voices in the cacophony caused by a war and power vacuum.....

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