Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>When we did dismount our Humvees every civilian on the street except vendors dropped what they were doing and came forward to greet us.<<<


I take it they didn't dismount their Humvees unarmed?


(CBS/AP) The United States suspended all land travel by U.S. diplomats and other civilian officials in Iraq outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, amid mounting public outrage over the alleged killing of civilians by the U.S. Embassy's security provider Blackwater USA.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/19/iraq/main3273980.shtml