Iraqi McClatchy Staffer Lists Gains After 4 Years Of War: For Example Many New Ways To Kill Invented

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Iraqi Staffer for McClatchy Lists Gains After 4 Years of War: For Example, Many New Ways to Kill Invented

By E&P Staff

Published: April 10, 2007 6:15 PM ET

NEW YORK During the past few weeks, we have published excerpts from the remarkable new blog published by McClatchy Newspapers. Called "Inside Iraq," it comes out of McClatchy's well-respected Baghdad bureau and contains postings (some with dark humor) written only by the bureau's Iraqi staffers and correspondents.

The following appeared today written by "Laith" (last names are never given for security reasons):

Yesterday Iraqis and the whole world kept talking about the memories of the war and some of the most important political developments in Iraq. Some Arabic reports concentrated on other sides especially the economical ones reflecting the reality in their own way. As an Iraqi, I feel I can't be more accurate than any channel because I lived the four years in Iraq. So lets see some of the most important achievements done by the great Iraqi and American administrations.

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-- Some Iraqis became cleverer and they started to invent new ways in killing each other, stealing from each other, hiding weapons, kidnapping and cheating.

-- Iraqis never feel afraid of the electric shocks because we have electricity power for only two hours a day or three hours as a maximum. The rest of the day we have to use small Chinese generator that cost something like 100 $ which are not really powerful enough to kill people.

-- We have the largest number of blast walls. Each ministry blocks the roads that lead to its building with tens of these walls. I think that the cement used in these blast walls is enough to build 1000 skyscrapers.

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