Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/29

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Subject: [Leica] Well
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Mon Jan 29 09:47:01 2007
References: <20070129152930.225360@gmx.net>

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

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