Walking Baghdad streets--Interesting!
February 20, 2003
This is Brigadier Number 2, from Iraq.
The team's main reporter, Brigadier Number
1, has gone to bed early tonight,maybe pitying himself for unsucessful
attempts to flirt with Iraqi girls....
This afternoon, we tried to visit "Saddam
City," as we have planned from Japan, but locals refused to take
us, making cheesy excuses such as "It is too far and too dangerous."
Actually, it is supposed to be only one-hour drive.
So we had to give up visiting Iraqi slums.
Instead, we turned down Iraqi staffers' proposition to take us further
around and went out to the streets by ourselves for international
goodwill.
It was a 3-hour excursion, but most of the
people we have met were purely friendly and nice. People swarmed around
us, exclaiming things like "Japanese?,""Welcome!,"and
"Stop by for some tea."
("Come on up on the roof!"
they said. They were all very nice.)
And of course, nobody we had met had the slightest
link to something like "axis of evil." I thought two presidents
of you know where are the actual axis of evil. As we went on to the
residential district, half-dozen men were repairing a rooftop, and
they asked us to come up. We accepted their invitation and exchanged
greetings with local construction workers.
They were very excited to welcome us, especially
after learning that we are Japanese, and they offered as Chai (a kind
of tea), and it was very good. One of them knew a Japanese road construction
expert named Kashimura. He told us that Kashimura had been killed
in a car crash.
We promised to send photographs to him and
wrote down his address and left.
It is past 3 a.m., and I am very tired, so
please see the photographs instead of written reporting.
Although they are denounced as "axis of
evil", I thought Iraqi people maintain cheerful and energetic
Arab DNAs. Please wait for our next report, maybe after returning
from Baghdad.
(Saddam Tower; People said Americans were determined
to destroy this in revenge of World Trade Center)
(Fruit shop in Baghdad, filled
with colorful fruits)
(This was a rice shop)
(an entertaining employee of
a butcher shop)
(Vegetables sold in Iraqi streets)
(Shops selling sweets)
(Would you like some roast chicken?)
(in front of a grocery shop)
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