Looking over the most recent presser in Baghdad with the CPA (Gen Kimmitt and Dan Senor) reading to the bottom, I find the useful question of the day from John Burns of the NYT:
MR. SENOR: John?
Q: John Burns, New York Times. General and Dan, both of you, you must be aware that there's considerable, increasing concern amongst foreigners in Baghdad -- and, I've no doubt, amongst Iraqis as well -- about the security of Baghdad and, to put it at its bluntest, whether United States armed forces are truly in control of the city.
We've heard within the last 24 hours of a journalist being stopped at an unofficial checkpoint by ununiformed people just off the airport expressway, citizen demanded and passed because she was a German. We know of the attacks today, we know of other kidnappings that have taken place in the city, and we believe that most of the civilian contract personnel within the Green Zone who are committed to work outside the Green Zone have in fact been locked down in the Green Zone for some time. So both as a matter of concern for ourselves and for the general situation, can you tell us directly:
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