[Allegra]

Hm. Baghdad has become considerably calmer and more settled in the last month.

Not much in the way of car bombs and mortars and nasty firefights for the media to report.

So, they resort to stuff like this...

I wonder when these quotes were collected? I notice the article sort of omits that minor detail.

[RockinRight]

Terrorism certainly brings down home values.

[edcoil]

I have a friend in New York City and when they put their house on the market, the local mob boys visited them to ensure they would only sell to “their” kind of people so the neighborhood would keep its local ethnic community.