Allah yistur min il rab3a

Three years later and the nightmares of bombings and of shock and awe have evolved into another sort of nightmare. The difference between now and then was that three years ago, we were still worrying about material things- possessions, houses, cars, electricity, water, fuel… It’s difficult to define what worries us most now. Even the most cynical war critics couldn't imagine the country being this bad three years after the war... Allah yistur min il rab3a (God protect us from the fourth year).

read more at Riverbend´s Baghdad Burning, a Girl Blog from Iraq

update: just noticed that Baghdad Burning won Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog at the sixth annual weblog awards, the 2006 bloggies.
Congrats, well deserved.