"Now, as Iraqi leaders in the Green Zone savor their recent successes -- the naming of the first permanent government since the fall of Saddam Hussein and the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's most wanted guerrilla leader -- Iraqis outside its walls are more frightened than ever."
"If the Americans want to destroy Iraq, they are on the right path," said the owner, a Shiite, who stood scowling behind a candy counter. He displayed a pistol jammed in his waistband. "If they can't improve things, they should just leave us alone."
"A man waiting in line disagreed: "But not now, we're still in a mess."
"Residents of Mansour have good reason to be afraid. The wave of insurgent crime has already sunk neighborhoods in western Baghdad into anarchy. In Dora, it is impossible to collect the bodies of the murdered because of sniper fire."
"In Mansour, life has not shut down entirely, but has slowed from a bustle to a trickle. An internal American Embassy security document, recently posted on the Internet by The Washington Post, quoted an Iraqi employee who said Mansour was "an unrecognizable ghost town."
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