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April 18, 2009

Iraq: Drink, Flesh... and journo convention

Secure Enough to Sin, Baghdad Is Back to Old Ways - NYTimes.com Worth a read although rather facile.

Gone, for the most part, are nighttime curfews, religious extremists and prowling kidnappers. So, inevitably, some people are turning to illicit pleasures, or at least slightly dubious ones.

Nightclubs have reopened, and in many of them, prostitutes troll for clients. Liquor stores, once shut down by fundamentalist militiamen, have proliferated; on one block of busy Saddoun Street, there are more than 10 of them.

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Posted by The Lounsbury at April 18, 2009 07:10 PM
Filed Under: Iraq War , Islam & Politics

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