Monday, June 30, 2003

MUCH OF PRESS DEVOTED TO IRAQ TODAY IS FOCUSED ON FINDING OUT WHO AND WHAT IS BEHIND THE UNREST.

This story is a pretty good rundown on the various theories.
Many Iraqis, however, say that last week's large-scale power outages in sweltering Baghdad, combined with the country's gun culture, growing irritation over a lack of jobs and frustration over slow progress toward creating an Iraqi government, mean that almost anyone could be pointing a weapon at U.S. troops.

"A man who cannot find bread in his house will raise his sword against the governor," Selman said, reciting a 1,000-year-old Muslim saying. Iraqis, he said, also are wondering why the Americans, with their organizational might, can't manage to keep the electricity on almost two months after the official end of the war.

"If the Americans can bring in all these tanks, why not generators?" he said.

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