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Although a ride on the Highway of Death once exaggerated the dangers lurking in Baghdad, it now does the opposite, lulling newcomers into a false sense of security. Even as the airport route has got somewhat safer, huge portions of the Iraqi capital have become far more dangerous. I pass one of those on the drive into the city: Amariyah, the mainly Sunni suburb adjacent to Camp Victory and home to Mahmud, one of my Iraqi colleagues. (The names of most of TIME's Iraqi employees have been changed in this article for their protection; working for a foreign company...
High fuel prices have yielded one bonus: with more and more people keeping their cars at home, the roads are relatively free of traffic snarl-ups. It's typical of Baghdad that when something seems to get better--whether traffic or the ride from the airport--it's usually because something else has got much worse...
...train for an hour, it feels great. My mixed commute is like a win-win Catch-22—which is a reference I now feel alright using, considering I’ve actually had a chance to read the book this summer. Thanks to the train ride, of course.Commuting has a unique culture; a strange, exclusive social order open only to those who live inconveniently far away from their workplace, with a euphemistic jargon of its own. For instance, “commuter shoes” are the flip-flops you take off in the elevator before jamming your...
...conventional, easily identifiable armies but stealthy terrorists who use civilian populations as both shields and targets. He says, "We're fighting the same battle as the U.S. is with al-Qaeda." Hizballah, he says, are hard to spot among Lebanese civilians because they don't wear uniforms and they ride around on motorcycles and in pick-up trucks. Hizballah also hides its rocket launchers in houses, garages and in teeming neighborhoods, he alleges...
Landis seems prepared for an ugly ride. "Unfortunately, I don't think it's ever going to go away, no matter what happens next," he said of the allegations. Landis has fallen off his bike before. Let's see if he can get back on this time...