Baghdad Journal: As Iraqi Lights Flicker, &#8216;Generator Man&#8217; Feels Heat
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When the power goes out in Baghdad, Iraqis blame the generator man, probably the most vilified figure after Saddam Hussein.
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BAGHDAD -- Private guards in sport utility vehicles helped Iraq's former electricity minister, Ayham al-Samaraie, escape from a police station just outside the heavily fortified Green Zone where he was being held on corruption charges, officials said yesterday.
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Blog: Provocative video installation by Iraqi-born artist aims to provide metaphor for danger confinement faced by family and friends back home.
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It&#39;s touted as the safest place in Baghdad, but even the thousands of normal Iraqis whose homes wound up in the US-occupied Green Zone want
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad feels the tension at a road checkpoint in the Iraqi capital
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As targets of resistors in Iraq, Iraqi security forces are preempting possible attacks by shooting at civilian cars. Yesterday, in Havsa, a town 40 km away from Baghdad, Iraqi policemen arrived at the scene
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Iraqis fleeing their homes because of sectarian warfare are starting to set up makeshift camps inside the country -- a development reflecting the dire scope of the Iraq's displacement problem. Most of the camps are not big yet. But a U.N. spokesman said: "Iraqis detest living in camps and the fact that we are now seeing these types of camps being established is a very bad sign."
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NASR WA SALAM, Iraq -- Naiem al-Qaisi was imprisoned for four months, beaten, shocked with electric probes and, he said, forced to witness fellow Sunni male prisoners being raped by Shiite soldiers of the Iraqi army.
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A leading Shiite political figure showed signs of unease on Thursday about the risks that the continuing violence here poses for the elections.
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SAMARRA, Iraq -- The town was quiet, its residents asleep. A minute after midnight, the on-duty officer at a small US base here started his log. At 6:43 a.m., Army Sergeant First Class Christopher Gallas noted the sound of two explosions. Four minutes later: "Nighthawk elements report Main Dome on the Golden Mosque has been blown up."
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Behind concrete blast walls and battling a flickering power supply, Baghdad's international film festival opened in a hotel on Wednesday in another sign of how improved security is bringing life back to the city.
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US officials in Baghdad are fearing a fuel crisis, which is leaving Iraqi homes cold and dark and drivers waiting days for petrol, may inflame unrest before the election.
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A giant smokestack looms over the green pastures and lazily flowing canals south of Baghdad. There is no smoke &#151; just the sense of lost economic potential and an uncertain future.
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With the heat and humidity making it feel like more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) along the U.S. East Coast, the region's power grid operators said they had enough electricity to keep the air conditioners humming.
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An American who served as Iraqâs electricity minister before being jailed on corruption charges.
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He has a gaggle of bodyguards and a silver Mercedes, but to the people of this refugee camp, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas is still just "Abul Abed," the neighbor who shares electricity from his generator during power cuts and attends their weddings and funerals.
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Already demoralized by chronic insecurity, energy shortages are further exasperating Iraqis just as the government is trying to win enthusiasm for upcoming elections.