Sunday, October 02, 2005
Iraqi RhetIraq: Middle-Class
Who: Ms. Nesma Abdul-Razzaq & Mr. Monkath Abdul-Razzaq (Iraqi Middle-Class)
Source: NY Times
Quotes: From article titled, "Middle-Class Family Life in Iraq Withers Amid the Chaos of War"
From her bedroom window, Nesma Abdul-Razzaq, a 43-year-old homemaker, has watched insurgents fire grenades from a patch of grass near her garden. Frequent patrols of American tanks rattle the glass. A bullet has pierced a pane.
"You can't live in safety if you cooperate with either side," she said in the bedroom of her house, deep in insurgent-controlled western Baghdad. So when American troops offered to pay for the use of the roof last month, she politely declined.
"What would I say to the neighbors?" she said.
"The Americans put us in a ridiculous situation," he [Mr. Monkath Abdul-Razzaq] said. "They came to Iraq and all the religious parties came with them. The religious man in Iraq is like a fox."
"I am very worried," he said, sweating after his third trip in two hours to fiddle with a generator on the roof. "No power. No peace. Do you think this is life? It is hell."
Source: NY Times
Quotes: From article titled, "Middle-Class Family Life in Iraq Withers Amid the Chaos of War"
From her bedroom window, Nesma Abdul-Razzaq, a 43-year-old homemaker, has watched insurgents fire grenades from a patch of grass near her garden. Frequent patrols of American tanks rattle the glass. A bullet has pierced a pane.
"You can't live in safety if you cooperate with either side," she said in the bedroom of her house, deep in insurgent-controlled western Baghdad. So when American troops offered to pay for the use of the roof last month, she politely declined.
"What would I say to the neighbors?" she said.
"The Americans put us in a ridiculous situation," he [Mr. Monkath Abdul-Razzaq] said. "They came to Iraq and all the religious parties came with them. The religious man in Iraq is like a fox."
"I am very worried," he said, sweating after his third trip in two hours to fiddle with a generator on the roof. "No power. No peace. Do you think this is life? It is hell."
