Reply #17: A Baghdad's family blogsite: shortages and hit list$

[rainbow4321]

There is a family over there that has been keeping a blog for a while now. Their latest entry talks about the fuel shortage, etc... looks like they write the blog in their language and then someone translates it into English.

http://afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Monday, November 29th, 2004
Good evening…
The weather in Baghdad is very cold…. Electricity cut-offs are very long these days, and the water from the tab is too cold…I couldn’t wash my hear for three days, finally I decided to heat some water on the kitchen stove, then wash my hear on the wash basin. There is a petrol, kerosene, and cooking gas shortage, their prices have risen again in an annoying way.
Confrontations are still going on in various areas of Baghdad… Al-Doora, Al-Amiriya, Al-Gazzaliya, Haifa Street, Abu Ghareeb, and of course, around the Airport…between the Resistance, and the occupation forces, and with groups (I do not know who they are, should I call them resistance also?) who carry a grudge against the Iraqi Police and the National Guard.
They say the price list is like this:
Whoever kills an Iraqi Policeman gets $1000.
Whoever kills an Iraqi National Guardsman gets $3000.
I don’t know who laid this pricelist, and who pays… but fire is raging in Baghdad, and other cities in Iraq, (Mousel, Baquba, Al-Ramadi, and of course, Fallujah….).
And when confrontations burn up, the presence of the Iraqi police is reduced very much on the streets, presenting a precious opportunity to thieves and criminals to kidnap, kill, and rob.