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To: Win Smith who wrote (160403)	4/12/2005 5:16:31 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You sure do use a lot of " ".

To: Win Smith who wrote (160403)	4/12/2005 6:36:48 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Baghdad Correspondents: post-gazette.com I was almost too frightened to speak or panic. Indeed, I felt strangely calm, vaguely wondering if this would turn out to be another close call or something more ominous. Foreigners are frequently targeted by both insurgents and kidnappers. guardian.co.uk Iraq trapped in a terrible vice between ruthless insurgents and unloved occupiers Election day brought a blessed respite. The fear cleared and millions of Iraqis poured on to the streets, finally allowed to choose their own government and savouring for a while a new confidence in their future. Then, after a lull, the violence returned and kidnappers began to strike again. The elections should have helped to ease this crisis, but it is too easy to suppose that they will have been enough: that an elected government, a stronger police force and an end to the chronic shortages of electricity, petrol, cooking gas and jobs will alone produce a healthy state. cbsnews.com "Two years pass and the people are not back to their normal way of life, my friend," says al-Soof. Power failures are common. It happens a lot, the people say. "Three hours on, three hours off," says al-Soof. It's not just electricity. Water and telephone service are intermittent at best. More than a third of Iraqis are still out of work. Just getting around requires negotiating a labyrinth of concrete barricades, checkpoints and roadside bombs. kansascity.com Thousands rally on second anniversary of Baghdad's fall Their message boomed over loudspeakers: "America, listen to our voices, the voices of Iraqis from north to south, from Zakho to Basra. We warn you of Iraqi anger. An Iraqi is a bullet if he is impatient." cbsnewyork.com The cameraman suffered minor injuries Tuesday during a battle between U.S. soldiers and suspected insurgents, the military said. He was standing next to an alleged insurgent who was killed during the shootout, the statement said. The military issued a statement then saying the cameraman was shot because his equipment was mistaken for a weapon. Ahhhhh....flowers and music... Orca