The next time John McCain wants to go for an all expenses paid for by taxpayers, photo-op walk in Baghdad, he might want to try these streets.
Baghdad merchants have said that McCain's photo-op walk might have made their market "a more inviting target for insurgents."
“Every time the government announces anything — that the electricity is good or the water supply is good — the insurgents come to attack it immediately,” said Abu Samer, 49, who would give only his nickname out of concern for his safety.
Only one day after McCain's walk, "The crack of shots fired by unseen snipers echoed . . through Baghdad's wholesale Shorja market. . . "
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