Reply #11: Bremer probably doesn't read newspapers either

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Amina is putting her beauty salon up for sale. She has recovered from the episode last June when armed men burst in and robbed her clients of cash and jewellery, and she has learned to live with the gunfights that erupt with regularity at the coffee shop next door.
But within the space of a month, she says her teenage apprentice narrowly escaped abduction, a customer was held at gunpoint in another kidnapping attempt, and one of her regulars was dragged away by the hair and gang raped.

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Fears of a similar fate have driven Baghdad's female population indoors. When schools reopened on October 4, classrooms were half empty, with girls kept home by parents forced to choose between education and safety.

Under US occupation, working women have re-ordered their lives, wearing hijab for the first time, or travelling with male relatives. Some barely venture out at all.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1060813,00.html

Bremer lives in luxury behind multiple concrete barriers and only ventures out with a phalanx of guards. Maybe that's normal for him.