Five days in the life of an invisible war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1264127,00.html
The rebels attack because the marines are there. The marines are there
because the rebels attack. In an extraordinary dispatch, foreign
correspondent of the year James Meek describes life in a Catch-22
world where a human life is valued at $500, the mercury rarely falls
below 40 and the daily carnage goes largely unreported
Read part two of the article here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1264193,00.html
Monday July 19, 2004
The Guardian
One morning earlier this month a fan turned too slowly to stir the air
much in a dark little room in al-Karmah, a town west of Baghdad
between Abu Ghraib and Fallujah. In one corner of the room, a US
marine corporal sat counting out new dollar bills, balancing them on
the toe of his desert boot as he prepared each slender wad.
An armed American lawyer sat at a desk in a straight-backed chair,
facing a succession of Iraqi claimants who took their place opposite
on a two-seater sofa. The sofa put the claimants, dressed in long
white Arab tunics - dishdashes - at a lower level than the lawyer, and
they stretched to gain height, eyes flicking between the lawyer's face
and hands. The lawyer wore a pistol strapped to his thigh, a flak
jacket and glasses. He was sweating heavily. The claimants spoke
little, and the lawyer's speeches were brief. What was said was
translated by a marine interpreter. The interpreter was armed, too,
with an M16 automatic rifle. Everyone in the room was scared.
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