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Monday, June 19, 2006

Iraq Is Hell Cable--from U.S. Ambassador to Iraq

"Hours before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, the U.S. Embassy in Iraq painted a starkly different portrait of increasing danger and hardship faced by its Iraqi employees. This cable, marked "sensitive" and obtained by The Washington Post, outlines in spare prose the daily-worsening conditions for those who live outside the heavily guarded international zone: harassment, threats and the employees' constant fears that their neighbors will discover they work for the U.S. government."

Click here to view the cable.

-- Al Kamen

(Washington Post Columnist who received the "sensitive" cable)

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