SWJED
06-18-2006, 12:28 AM
18 June Washington Post - From the Embassy, a Grim Report (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061601768.html).
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.
AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD 121430Z JUN 06 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/graphics/iraqdocs_061606.pdf) (Posted to the 'Net by the Washington Post)
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.
AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD 121430Z JUN 06 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/graphics/iraqdocs_061606.pdf) (Posted to the 'Net by the Washington Post)