Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mads Christensen writes in part: > > Please be sure that I am alive and kicking but things seem to be > getting nastier... > When shuttling in the vehicles, we are subject to the risk of car > bombs but so far our intelligence have prevented us from being > 'too' close to such events. A couple of nights ago, we had two > rockets 'landing' in the compound; one went through the roof of > the block that I was just passing by and when I reached by own > block for shelter, we were all told to seek shelter a different > place because another rocket had actually penetrated the outer > wall my block, at the opposite end of where my room is located. > That had happened just seconds before the rocket the impact of > which I witnessed. None of the two rockets exploded because the > explosive material apparently had lost its power! Thus we were > lucky to have only minor casualties that night, which was my first > incident of this kind. During the day in the green zone we have > frequently 'lock downs' because of imminent risks of explosions of > bombs that sometimes turns out to be true and sometimes turn out > to be based on inaccurate ! > intelligence. Sic! > > I look forward to my leave in February... Sounds to me that a significant number of the locals really don't want you there. You may want to consider doing something different somewhere else. Greg J. Lorenzo Calgary, Alberta