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To: TideGlider who wrote (31618)	6/20/2004 10:24:54 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Iraq: The Greatest Ever Failure in US Foreign Policy Patrick Cockburn, The Independent — BAGHDAD, 20 June 2004 — An Iraqi friend who feared for his life because he was close to the Americans used to live inside the Green Zone, the heavily protected area in central Baghdad where the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) has its headquarters. One day he fell into conversation with an American soldier guarding one of the gates. The soldier said he was of Iraqi origin and could speak Arabic. He added that security was not quite as tight as it looked since prostitutes were regular visitors to the zone. My friend, a little alarmed about this, decided to investigate. He went to a house being used as a brothel. He says: “In the toilet I found that the women were writing pro-Baath party, anti-American and patriotic slogans with their lipstick on the mirrors.” Their clients could not tell what they had written because it was in Arabic. contd.....http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=47064&d=20&m=6&y=2004