[At the checkpoint near my mother's home] I turned my head to the left and I saw the biggest cement wall I have ever seen, which encircles my neighborhood.
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[One of the two Iraqi soldiers] inspected my car with an explosive detector device. The other was just looking at us and it seemed that he recognized my mother’s face because he said: “Hi, auntie.”
Now I felt really safe because those people were working properly, not like the security forces in my neighborhood before...
As people say in my neighborhood: “The Americans are now Ansar al Sunna.” Protectors of the Sunni.
Read the whole thing.
h/t The Blog at the Weekly Standard.
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