Baghdad NightLife
Since Australia is one the important allies with the United States in both military and terrorists prevention efforts in the Persian Gulf Nations and Afghanistan whats current in Baghdad NightLife is of significant interests to us both.
IE. Taken from TimesOnLine February 22, 2009.....
Baghdad has never seen anything quite like it: in the newly reopened al-Khyam bar on the banks of the Tigris a group of American paratroopers, fully armed and dressed for battle, were linked arm in arm with drunken Iraqi revellers as they danced the night away.
It is good to get a bit of Iraqi culture, said a soldier from the 82nd Airborne. Three or four of his brothers-in-arms, still wearing body armour and with M4 machineguns slung from their shoulders, did their best to get into the swing. They laughed and joked. Some danced hand in hand with Iraqi women. Some even danced with the men, as is the custom in the Arab world.
According to follow up reports there have been governmental and religious fundementalist forced clossings and equal re-openings, and once the special interests sector stops in trying to make political points, then the most of the clubs which were open during the era of Saddam Husine will completely reopen full operations and then business as usual but without corrupt kickbacks to a dictator regime.
What has already happen, and very much like my Bangkok NightLife experiences of R&R the Fall of 1967 during the Vietnam War [ Australia had a In-Country Division fighting this war too! ] Australian forces are still meeting with US Marines and both are still trying the drink each other under the table. According to many US Forces blogs when its come to forming friends Australians and Americans are extremely important in watching each others back - whether its on the battlefield against terror on in getting drunk at a nightlife bar.
Ask about your neighborhood about stories you have heard and report it here. Do the blogs from your troops in the region agrees?
Roger M. Christian
Ithaca, New York
Since Australia is one the important allies with the United States in both military and terrorists prevention efforts in the Persian Gulf Nations and Afghanistan whats current in Baghdad NightLife is of significant interests to us both.
IE. Taken from TimesOnLine February 22, 2009.....
Baghdad has never seen anything quite like it: in the newly reopened al-Khyam bar on the banks of the Tigris a group of American paratroopers, fully armed and dressed for battle, were linked arm in arm with drunken Iraqi revellers as they danced the night away.
It is good to get a bit of Iraqi culture, said a soldier from the 82nd Airborne. Three or four of his brothers-in-arms, still wearing body armour and with M4 machineguns slung from their shoulders, did their best to get into the swing. They laughed and joked. Some danced hand in hand with Iraqi women. Some even danced with the men, as is the custom in the Arab world.
According to follow up reports there have been governmental and religious fundementalist forced clossings and equal re-openings, and once the special interests sector stops in trying to make political points, then the most of the clubs which were open during the era of Saddam Husine will completely reopen full operations and then business as usual but without corrupt kickbacks to a dictator regime.
What has already happen, and very much like my Bangkok NightLife experiences of R&R the Fall of 1967 during the Vietnam War [ Australia had a In-Country Division fighting this war too! ] Australian forces are still meeting with US Marines and both are still trying the drink each other under the table. According to many US Forces blogs when its come to forming friends Australians and Americans are extremely important in watching each others back - whether its on the battlefield against terror on in getting drunk at a nightlife bar.
Ask about your neighborhood about stories you have heard and report it here. Do the blogs from your troops in the region agrees?
Roger M. Christian
Ithaca, New York
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