A bombing in central Baghdad today killed two and injured at least five. Shattered glass littered the streets and Iraqi police and American soldiers cordoned off the area.
But for store owners it was another day. They swept up the shards of glass as they have done countless times before. They called the glass repairman to come and install panes of glass in their storefront and they planned to open up later that afternoon.
Yaarub Abdul, 46, a stationary store owner brushed the debris around his shop into a dust bin. He reorganized the disheveled shelves and restocked recordable CDs.
"Thank God for your safety," passing patrons called out as they walked by the crowd of Iraqi police and American soldiers that responded to the incident.
"I'll be open in an hour," he said. "God will protect me."
By the afternoon the debris was sure to be gone and business would be back to normal until the next time.
What happened to the Iraq link at the home page? With so little real information about the war, you would think that something that has cost U.S. taxpayers a trillion dollars, killed up to 250,000 Iraqis, killed over 5,000 U.S. soldiers, mutilated over 16,000 more, and has resulted in 2,000,000 fleeing Iraq as refugees is worth a damn link to McC? Or has Sun Myung Moon bought this media as well?
Posted by: Diogenes | September 23, 2008 at 07:39 AM
I am impressed by how resilient and calm the shop owner is. I really cannot imagine Americans responding to this violence with such a manner.
Posted by: Susan | September 25, 2008 at 09:49 PM