
NYObserver's The Rummy Club
"...the most shocking response I have received from any Iraqi with regard to Abu Ghraib.
"I haven’t heard about it," said Mujtaba, the hejab-seller, when we first asked for his reaction.
"Don’t you watch television?" my translator, Shamil Aziz, asked in astonishment.
"Yes, I watch television," Mujtaba retorted. "But the electricity is off all the time.""
Posted by dbrown at May 13, 2004 05:00 PM