View From A Pro-US Iraqi

A whole year has passed now and I can't help but feel that we are back at the starting point again. The sense of an impending disaster, the ominous silence, the breakdown of most governmental facilities, the absence of any police or security forces, contradicting news reports, rumours everywhere, and a complete disruption in the flow of everyday life chores.

All signs indicate that it's all spiralling out of control, and any statements by CPA and US officials suggesting otherwise are blatantly absurd.

After two days of calm at my neighbourhood, clashes resumed this morning from around 9 in the morning until 2 or 3 in the afternoon. My brother witnessed masked Fedayeen using RPG's against US troops just two blocks from our house. We panicked when three American tanks and two Humvee's parked in front of our house after that. My grandmother was trying to cross the garden to our house in hysterics. The American soldier on top of one of the Humvee's alarmingly swivelled his machine gun at us while we were trying to help her through. Everyone was praying that they wouldn't come under attack at this moment because it would definitely mean shooting back in all directions, thankfully they didn't.