Baghdad's Kassakhoon: 06/24/08

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

A score for Muqtada al-Sadr

Iraq's anti-American radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr scores today when his followers killed four Americans including two soldiers and two U.S. government civilian employees, Sinan Salaheddin reports for the Associated Press.

The bomb struck a municipal council building in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district where the Americans gathered inside to attend an election event for a new head for the local council, The AP reports.

Now let's see what will happen next...will the Americans score?

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Iraq's famous artist, Qassim Sabti told The NYT on May 14 story on Baghdad's tastelessness look:

“Taking care of the look of the city has stopped because the people who have come to power were living in villages with animals. So how did they develop their taste?

“Saddam was also a villager,” he continued, “but he was smart enough to depend on the qualified and professional people who understood art.”

“There is no worse era than this time.”

“There are stages such as these, and then there are stages of calm,” Iraq's esteemed archaeologist, Donny George as quoted in a March 14 piece done by NYT when he died. “Each can last 100 years, but it passes. A famous Sumerian writer described the scene here in 2000 B.C., saying that people are looting and killing and nobody knows who the king is. So you see, nothing is new.”

“We called it our Berlin Wall,” said Saad Khalef, 41, told The NYT on March 6 story as he surveyed the newly uncovered ground where the walls had stood, as crushed and pale as the skin beneath a bandage. “Now we can breathe easy. Yesterday, I felt a breeze coming through, I swear to God.”

The NYT's Anthony Shadid in a piece on Jan. 6, 2011 two days after Muqtada Al-Sadr's return from nearly four-year self-imposed exile in Iraq: In 2004, an American spokesman in Baghdad called Mr. Sadr “a two-bit thug.” On Wednesday, the State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley, called him “the leader of an Iraqi political party that won a number of seats in the March 2010 election.”

Baghdad's Kassakhoon

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

A score for Muqtada al-Sadr

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