By: E&P Staff For several weeks, E&P has featured the blog postings of McClatchy's Iraqi staffers in its Baghdad bureau. They post -- often with bitter humor -- at the company's Inside Iraq site, but their names are partly hidden for obvious security reasons.
Here's the latest this week, from one of the regular posters, correspondent "Sahar."
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An explosion in Baghdad is nothing novel. This one was very big. It was also very close to my home, and as a result, most of our windowpanes ended as splinters on the floor.
Neither is this the first time that happens. Routinely, fetch the ?glass-man? and repair the windows... again.
What?s novel about ?this time? is that we couldn?t.
We couldn?t find a ?glass-man? willing to come into our neighborhood to fix the windows. All the professionals in the nearby industrial area are Shiite.
I risked my life going in to fetch one, but they will not risk their lives to fix my windows...understandably.
My kids and I spent the night in a house with no glass in its windows ?
That was novel.
I will have to go out looking for a Sunni ?glass man." That?s novel.
I asked my colleagues, today, if anyone knew a Sunni ?glass man?; they looked at me as if I had taken leave of my senses.
But I haven?t. I need a ?glass man?, urgently!
Will we spend another night huddled together, pretending to be asleep?
ANYONE??? A SUNNI ?glass man????
And thus it begins.
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