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To: KLP who wrote (139096)7/7/2004 12:46:11 PM
From: GST  Respond to of 281500
 
<Pretty broad overstatement, don't you think?
Nobody is safe in Iraq.>

Not really. There is no effective government. There is no effective police force. There is no effective military. But there are ample criminals and ample insurgents to cause people in the entire country to live in fear of being the victims of violence on a scale that you would absolutely never find in the United States.



To: KLP who wrote (139096)7/7/2004 7:56:24 PM
From: GST  Respond to of 281500
 
<Justice Minister Malik Dohan al-Hassan announced the measures, saying, "Present conditions in Iraq have reached a stage that is impossible to tolerate.">

story.news.yahoo.com