Word: neighborhooding
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...Avenue Pub was one of the few places in the city serving beer and burgers - or any meal - on Monday night as New Orleans bade goodbye to Gustav. So naturally it was a hot spot for Uptown residents (many of whom remained in the city because their neighborhood rarely floods). One tended the bar. Another set up generators to provide a bit of light, since Gustav's winds had knocked out electricity. Watts pointed to yet another band of protection: two New Orleans police officers sitting at the tip of the bar, drawn partly by the free meals that...
...vehicles from flooding. Never mind that the patch of land is barely a half-foot above ground. Perhaps the liveliest discussion came on the radio airwaves, where several callers cast their decision to stay as a battle of man versus nature. Meanwhile, residents of the seemingly flood-resistant Uptown neighborhood, defied Gustav from their porches, comfortable above the police officers patrolling below...
Farooq al-Obeidi sensed his killers were near. "We have been penetrated by al-Qaeda," said al-Obeidi, a top commander of the Sunni Awakening group in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Adhamiya...
...forces gathering against the Awakening movement were bearing down on Al-Obeidi before he died in Adhamiya, a neighborhood that had been transformed from a violent den of the insurgency to a place of relative calm with the help of Awakening fighters. "With 48 fighters we liberated Adhamiya," said al-Obeidi a month before he died. "This part of the town was very difficult for the mighty force of the Americans to bring under control, and for the Iraqi army and police and militias. They could not secure this area of town for four years...
...Obeidi proudly pointed to recently reopened teahouses and other signs of life around the neighborhood but voiced frustration over what he considered a cold shoulder given to his Awakening band by the Iraqi government. "If the government was really looking after the Awakening councils, our salaries would come from the government," al-Obeidi said. "Believe me, even if I get less money from the government than from the Americans, I would feel cleaner and more honest to be taking pay from the government... Any honest Iraqi would prefer to get it from the Iraqi government. I don't want...